Next time remind me not to go in. Definitely, if I do go in, not to visit the Nature section. And if I get there anyway, not to listen to Amie!
She had checked out the Children’s section already and found nothing of interest. Then she joined me in front of Nature – I don’t think she’ll ever go back to Children’s. It’s only two cases, so she read title by title, calling them out to me – siren song! We were no better than each other. We spurred each other on. It’s the fault of neither one of us.
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
Amie chose chicken and goat books:
- Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens by Lauren Scheuer
- Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin (not only about chickens, but it has a chicken and an egg on the cover!)
- The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese by Margaret Hathaway
I chose the following (bear in mind that the word “choose” is sued here in a loose sense):
- The Frog Run: Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods by John Elder (there are a few authors I’ll buy any book from: Bass, Lopez, Harrison and Elder)
- The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (Just curious)
- The Wild Muir, Twenty-two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures by John Muir: wonderful illustrations by Fiona King
- Finding Home: Writing on Nature and Culture from Orion Magazine by Peter H. Sauer (Collection of Orion articles from before I became a subscriber (1992).)
- Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination by Barbara Hurd (Intriguing title)
- Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling through the Dark by Barbara Hurd (Comes with the one above)
- An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams (Need I justify this one?)
- Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich (I’ve read Mind of the Raven, or was it Winter World? I forget, but it was good)
- Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear (I like reading biographies, and Carson is of course a hero of mine)
PS. We did not get to bury Nocty. Both ground and chicken are frozen.
I’ve read the Salatin. Very good, and interesting libertarian perspective. But also great inspiration about farming. I’d live to borrow The Wild Muir when you’re done. What was the name of the bookstore. Looks like a winner (if there’s anything left).
It was the wonderful Brookline Booksmith, the basement where they have the second-hand section. I always come out with a pile (and a bill), but I go every three months or so, so they can restock ;)