
This month and next for book club. #BooksWithBeth #FirstSaturdayReaders
This month and next for book club. #BooksWithBeth #FirstSaturdayReaders
So, funny enough I didn‘t necessarily love reading this book. I put it down midway and almost didn‘t pick it back up. But, I‘m glad I did because I think it‘s given me an important perspective about reciprocity and motherhood that I‘ve found myself thinking a lot about.
This one has been sitting on my shelves awhile but after a librarian I know recommended it this weekโhe had just accessioned the edition for young readersโI decided it‘s time to start reading.
A call to listen to nature, take more consideration to nature, and to realize that we are not the only species on earth and start to take more consideration to all the others.
I loved the indigenous folklore/ myth stories about how earth and humans were made.
3rd book for #FabulousFebruary
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An important reminder - there‘s always humans behind every decision made by a corporation
Because the mature leaves make more sugar than they can use right away, the sugar stream starts to flow in the opposite direction, from leaves back to roots, through the phloem. And so the roots, which fed the buds, are now fed in return by the leaves all summer long. The sugar is converted back to starch, stored in the original โroot cellarโ. The syrup we pour over pancakes on a winter morning is summer sunshine flowing in golden streams to pool
Finished my first book of 2023, which also happened to be my IRL book club book and my #doublespin #bookspinbingo.
I loved this. I will probably buy a copy for myself, because I want to reread it and highlight the parts that really struck a chord with me. It was beautiful and heartbreaking, but strangely hopeful, too. Highly recommend it.
@TheAromaofBooks
Yet another book read with my book club!
I also loved Book of Extraordinary Tragedies by Joe Meno in September.
#12BooksOf2022
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I finally finished this. Her way of life is unlike what I've known, and it helped me look at things differently. I think it's a book I'll return to. #NaturaLitsy @AllDebooks
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This is one of those rare books that once I finish it, I want to buy up several hundred copies and get it into as many people‘s hands as possible. Every essay spoke to me and I will carry this book in my heart for the rest of my life. I urge anyone who loves nature to pick it up sometime. Even if you take away half of what it has filled me with, you will be the better for it. I‘ll be buying a personal copy since this was a library read.
Honestly, I struggled to get through the second half of this. I heartily agree with her philosophy regarding the importance of having relationships with nature. Yet, I was often left with the impression that only Native Americans currently have relationships with nature. Felt a little insulting. My favorite section was the one on basket making. Overall, I think this book was longer than necessary and repetitive. I liked her book on moss better.
This book is thoughtful and heartfelt. At times it is heartbreaking but it is always hopeful.
It has helped me to begin to connect my mind to my heart.
#Naturalitsy
This seminal book has many threads running through it, including botany, connections with nature & each other, science, culture (both western and indigenous), memoir and climate change. With this content in mind, it's best to view it as a collection of essays when reading. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have learned a great deal. There are many points to debate, so it is a good selection for a bookclub. โฌ๏ธโฌ๏ธโฌ๏ธ
A collection of personal essays, sometimes accumulating into a sense of theme. They‘re mixed. Some are great, many were plain. They trend idealistic, with romanticized Native American values. Based on these essays we might (sarcastically) conclude that the solution to all the world‘s problems is to purchase a rural property in New York and grow a garden. I wanted a hard but healthy reality check. But she did leave me with stuff to think about.
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Our final week of Braiding Sweetgrass. What are your thoughts on the book? Was it a hit or miss?
We're having a break for the holidays now. We will pick up our next read, tagged in comments, on Monday 2nd January. Y'know, just in case of New Years hangovers ๐๐ฅโ๏ธ๐
@wordslinger42 @rockpools @Chrissyreadit @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Blackink_WhitePaper @BookwormAHN @Deblovestoread @MilesnMelodies @Graywacke @Dilara @mitch
Robin Wall Kimmerer views language as a gift and a responsibility - and she writes that way. Her words are like spider silk: delicate, glittering, soft, and strong. She writes of reciprocity, ethical harvesting, gratitude, consent, and ecological restoration. She writes of strawberries, witch hazel, salmon, cedar trees, and the ties that bind. ๐๐ป
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#2013 #192025 @Librarybelle
Really enjoyed this one (as you already know!)
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Our final week of reading Braiding Sweetgrass, part 5 - Burning Sweetgrass.
Discussion thread will be posted on Saturday
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Week 4 - Discussion thread
@wordslinger42 @Mitch @MelisK @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
@rockpools @Chrissyreadit @Blackink_WhitePaper
@Deblovestoread @MilesnMelodies @Graywacke @Dilara @jenniferw88 @ErinSueMreads @chesea.poole @TheBookHippie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @jlhammar @LeeRHarry
@Soubhiville @wanderinglynn @SamAnne @claudiuo
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is hosting a free event about traditional ways of knowing, which readers of Braiding Sweetgrass may be interested in. I'm signed up - let's see if I make it, since it's mid - holiday season ๐
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@AllDebooks
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/events/pandemics-wake-embracing-many-ways-knowing-...
Beautifully written book about the connection between native people and the environment and how the rest of us are just destroying it. I don't completely disagree either. We need to learn reciprocity with the earth or we will all die.
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This at a slow pace is good. #naturalitsy
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Week 3 discussion thread
@wordslinger42 @rockpools @Chrissyreadit @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Dilara @Blackink_WhitePaper @BookwormAHN @Deblovestoread @MilesnMelodies @Graywacke @Mitch @jenniferw88 @ErinSueMreads @Chelsea.Poole @TheBookHippie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @jlhammar @MelisK @LeeRHarry @Soubhiville @wanderinglynn @SamAnne @claudiuo @PageShifter @Addison_Reads @BarkingMadRead @BarbaraBB
Been looking forward to this one! Borrowed from my dad.
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Week 3 reminder - Picking Sweetgrass
I'll post a discussion thread on Saturday. Wishing you all a great week.
I'm just going to tag you in the discussion threads as don't want to get annoying ๐
Also I'll be posting about our Jan/Feb reads later this week. So keep em peeled ๐๐ค
My Grandmother is Mohawk, and one of her lovely friends made this sweet grass basket for me. I thought a lot about them while reading this book. I liked how Kimmer wove many different Native people groups into this book - showing the similarities and differences, while relating everything back to nature.
Beautifully done book.
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Week 2 - Discussion thread for Tending Sweetgrass.
@wordslinger42 @jenniferw88 @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @rockpools @Chrissyreadit @Blackink_WhitePaper @BookwormAHN @Deblovestoread @MilesnMelodies @Graywacke @Dilara @ErinSueMreads @Chelsea.Poole @Ann_Reads @TheBookHippie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @jlhammar @MelisK @LeeRHarry @Soubhiville @wanderinglynn @SamAnne @claudiuo @Addison_Reads @BarkingMadRead @BarbaraBB @CaitZ
Loving this book! Seems like the perfect time of year to be cuddled up, reading about maple syrup tapping ๐ So happy to be a part of the #NaturaLitsy buddy read for this one. It was also on my #auldlangspine list from last year from @Mitch which I‘m just now getting around to.
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Week 2 reminder - Part 2 - Tending Sweetgrass
Thank you for all your insightful comments on Part 1.
Let's see what this week's reading brings.
Wishing you all a great week. ๐
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Here's our first discussion thread for Part 1 - Planting Sweetgrass.
@wordslinger42 @Mitch @MelisK @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @rockpools @Chrissyreadit @Blackink_WhitePaper @BookwormAHN @Deblovestoread @milesnmelodies @Graywacke @Dilara @jenniferw88 @ErinSueMreads @Chelsea.Poole @Ann_Reads @TheBookHippie @jlhammar @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Soubhiville @wanderinglynn @SamAnne @claudiuo @PageShifter @Addison_Reads @BarkingMadRead
Kind of cool that the book we just finished in #naturalitsy refers our next book. I‘ve started this one, Braiding Sweetgrass - although I haven‘t figured out what it actually is yet (if that even makes sense).
"In winter, when the green earth lies resting beneath a blanket of snow, this is the time for storytelling. The storytellers begin by calling upon those who came before who passed the stories down to us, for we are only messengers.
In the beginning there was the Skyworld."
Already hooked #NaturaLitsy folk, how about you?
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Week 1 - Part 1 - Planting Sweetgrass
Discussion thread will be posted on Saturday as we're reading this over a shorter period this time.
All welcome to join in.
@wordslinger42 @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @rockpools @Chrissyreadit @Blackink_WhitePaper @BookwormAHN @Deblovestoread @MilesnMelodies @Graywacke @dilara @Mitch @jenniferw88 @ErinSueMreads @Chelsea.Poole @Ann_Reads @TheBookHippie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @jlhammar @MelisK
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All good to go for our next readalong, starting tomorrow. I will post reminders on Mondays and discussion posts on Saturday.
All welcome to join us. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list.
Almost a year after @Cinfhen put it on my radar I‘m finally reading Braiding Sweetgrass. I‘m reading/listening to one chapter a day so I will finish at the end of the month. Katee on the Currently Reading podcast suggested that on this week‘s show, so that was the push I needed. Perfect for #NonfictionNovember
Thank you so much for my #BasicWitchSwap goodies, Kim! I‘m VERY excited about all of the books, and love all of the goodies! I‘m so set for incense for a while.๐ค You‘re awesome!
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Quick poll
Please state your preference when you would you prefer to start our next read
1st November - 23rd December (10 days per section) or
7th November - 11th December (7 days per section)
This would give us a nice long break over Christmas holidays.
This book gets so much love and praise, and I think deservedly so. So much of what we as a society fail at in terms of making necessary change comes down to a lack of ability to imagine something better, which is why a book like this is so vital. In sharing Indigenous ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world as family and reciprocal caregivers, Robin Wall Kimmerer gives us a path forward toward healing.
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Please feel free to join us for our November/December readalong starting 1st November.
Obviously I thought I needed this book in every format, although now I can't remember why. ๐
I did not meet my #Superseptember goals.
I did not finish this book but I‘m still enjoying it.
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Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 ! ๐
Super excited about Saturday book mail and this eclectic stack of books. Sunny, high 60s, chores are doneโit‘s a gorgeous day. Now all I have to do is decide which one to read first!
Book #20 of the year: โBraiding Sweetgrassโ by Robin Wall Kimmerer
I‘ve been reading this one for a while, as evidenced by the worn cover. โBraiding Sweetgrassโ is the kind of book that nourishes the soul and makes you a better person. It made me feel so many thingsโit made me feel. I took this book in sips, a chapter at a time, and savored it. If you read one book this year, make it โBraiding Sweetgrassโ.