Announcing a new category
From the beginning, I have described my blog as a ‘work in progress’ so I’m pleased to announce a ‘progression’, which will involve a new category and a collaborative effort with the Kiawah Conservancy. The idea for this collaboration evolved after I wrote a book review for the latest issue of “Naturally Kiawah”, the Conservancy’s twice yearly publication. Perhaps, I thought, I could feature on the blog books such as the one I reviewed for the magazine. We know that books about animals, plants and the environment can be both educational and entertaining. For example, a popular book entitled The Overstory, a novel by Richard Powers, is fictional but ultimately focuses on the destruction of forests.
Enter the Kiawah Conservancy with their role being to promote a book a month on the Reading Around Kiawah blog. In e-blasts to the community, the Conservancy will mention the title of the book and then publish a review of the same book on the blog. In what seems to be a win/win situation, we will encourage readers to expand their awareness of timely issues through pleasurable reading.
Historically, books about ‘nature’ have heavily influenced theory and practice in our country and around the world. Think Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau and Rachel Carson! The following is a list that you might be interested in reading if you haven’t already.
Well-known books with themes from the natural world:
Born Free, by Joy Adamson
The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
H is for Hawk, by Helen McDonald
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Watership Down, Richard Ames
The Origin, Irving Stone