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GreenSleeves is EEA's virtual book club where members can explore environmental topics, spark meaningful conversations, and learn new ways to take action in our communities.
There is no commitment other than to enjoy reading and sharing books about nature. The book club meets via Zoom several times a year and is free for EEA members. Sign up to receive announcements of upcoming books as well as Zoom links for book club meetings. |
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Upcoming Books
Fall / Winter Selection : The Home Place by Drew Lanham
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"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.”
"From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be "the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today." - Milkweed Editions Congrats to author Drew Lanham on his recent MacArthur Foundation Genius Award! |
Previous Selections
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October 2022
On October 24th, the Book Club discussed On Display: A Novel of Natural History with the author, Christy Baker Knight. On Display is a fun read spiced with naturalist knowledge and set in some Georgia haunts you may recognize. Young naturalist Becca North begins a promising career at the museum of natural history, but a disastrous collecting trip reveals her dark secret someone called the Creationist knows. |
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Summer 2022: Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
January 2022: Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans by Janisse Ray Author Janisse Ray joined us to discuss her new book at EEA's winter book club meeting, January 24, 2022.
January 2022: Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans by Janisse Ray Author Janisse Ray joined us to discuss her new book at EEA's winter book club meeting, January 24, 2022.
- Order Wild Spectacle from the publisher, Trinity University Press
- Use promo code GREENSLEEVES for 20% off
- EEA will receive 10% of book sales with the code
- Order another book to give as a gift!
- Thanks Trinity University Press! @TUPress
- Start reading now with this preview
July 2021: A selection of short stories:
- Cloud Dragon Skies from How Long 'til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
- Good Hunting Part 1 and Good Hunting Part 2 from The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
- Spider the Artist from Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor
- Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts from The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
October 2021: A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson
May 2021: The Overstory by Richard Powers
March 2021: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
January 2021: Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy
October 2020: Our Wild Calling by Richard Louv
August 2020: Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders by Angelou Ezeilo
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