No Need to Rush – It’s the Slow-Read Book Club!

There are some books that lend themselves to a slow and thoughtful read over many weeks. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass is such a book, and we’re excited to announce that it’s our pick for this winter’s Slow-Read Book Club. We’ll split this thought-provoking book into three parts, and gather at the Land Library’s Globeville branch to discuss each section over three sessions, and see where our conversation leads us. A slow-read will give us all a change to dive deep into this remarkable book about people and land!

“Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how the factual, objective approach of science can be enriched by the ancient knowledge of the indigenous people. It is the way she captures beauty that I love the most — the images of giant cedars and wild strawberries, a forest in the rain and a meadow of fragrant sweetgrass will stay with you long after you read the last page.“– Jane Goodall

Sunday, February 5th, 19th, and March 5th, 11am to 1pm, in-person only at the Land Library’s Globeville branch.

Book Club Fee: $25, with all proceeds supporting the Land Library’s Creative Residency Program at Buffalo Peaks Ranch.

Eventbrite Registration begins on Saturday, December 17th, 10am Mountain Time. Space is limited.

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And Here’s a Few More Winter Reads for the Land Library Book Club!

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

“Your world will change while reading this beautiful, deep, and generous book. A book by a scientist that goes far beyond science, a book by a black man that looks issues of race in the eye but then transcends them, a book by a loving son who, in the end, finds a new identity, The Home Place is really about what it means to be human, and in particular what it means to be human in relationship to the land. It is a love song to family, soil, trees, birds, and wildness itself. Read it and be enlarged.”―David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains

Sunday, January 22nd, 11am to 1pm, in-person at the Land Library’s Globeville branch.

Book Club Fee: $10, with all proceeds supporting the Land Library’s Creative Residency Program at Buffalo Peaks Ranch.

Eventbrite Registration begins on Saturday, December 17th, 10am Mountain Time. Space is limited.

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The Inland Island: A Year in Nature by Josephine W. Johnson

“Johnson writes in the present tense, as if she understands that what is required of us, always, is to be present, fully, in the place and time we are. As if she understood what had always been important and would remain ever so. She writes of the ugly and gorgeous in equal terms. This is a work of radical witness.” — Camille T. Dungy, from her Introduction.

Sunday, March 12th, 11am to 1pm, in-person at the Land Library’s Globeville branch.

Book Club Fee: $10, with all proceeds supporting the Land Library’s Creative Residency Program at Buffalo Peaks Ranch.

Eventbrite Registration begins on Saturday, December 17th, 10am Mountain Time. Space is limited.

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The Peregrine by J.A. Baker

“The Peregrine is one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read. Mr. Baker’s patience, his discriminating and unsentimental eye, and his passionate deliberations are utterly captivating.” —Barry Lopez

“It’s a most incredible book. It has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad—an ecstasy of a delirious sort of love for what he observes.” —Werner Herzog

Sunday, March 26th, 11am to 1pm, in-person only at the Land Library’s branch in Globeville.

Book Club Fee: $10, with all proceeds supporting the Land Library’s Creative Residency Program at Buffalo Peaks Ranch.

Eventbrite Registration begins on Saturday, December 17th, 10am Mountain Time. Space is limited.

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