The Wednesday Evening Book Discussion Group
reads both fiction and nonfiction titles, and is currently meeting virtually at
6:30pm on the fourth
Wednesday of every month on Zoom. This group will meet on the third
Wednesdays of November and December due to holidays. All are welcome to join the conversation!
The upcoming book selections will be available
for pick up any time after the current month’s discussion, during service hours
at the Port Angeles Main Library. Copies of the book will be available on a
first come, first serve basis.
Library staff and volunteers will moderate the
discussion. Sign in via Zoom link to see other participants, or call in to join
the meeting. No internet required to
connect to the discussion by phone.
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin
Wall Kimmerer
Drawing on her life as an
indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living
beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and
sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their
voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle
Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a
central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness
requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with
the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other
beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and
learn to give our own gifts in return.