I solicited a best books list from the other members of the Drinking & Reading Society. So far only Harry has responded. His list, interestingly enough, included none of the book club books for 2008, although it does include our January selection, A Passion for Nature. I suppose the others are holed up somewhere reading books, not watching their email. Perhaps I will hear from them by spring. Could be a long time. Jan. 16 is statistically the coldest day of the year. Whatever. Here's Harry's list.
A Passion for Nature by Donald Worster. A book that redefines John Muir and is now the definitive biography of Muir.
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. A book about the cholera epidemic in the mid 1850s in England and the efforts by one individual to find the cause, erroneous believed at the time to be "bad air."
The Nine by Jeffery Toobin. A review of the current Supreme Court, how they go on the court, what they believe, and how they relate to one another.
Driftless by David Rhodes. A novel set in the driftless area of SW Wisconsin about a variety of disparate individuals whose live eventually interact in different, unpreditable ways. Rhodes is a very well regarded novelist who wrote several acclaimed novels in the early and mid 1970s. This is his first book since that time, written over a ten year period and after a motorcycle accident that left him a paraplegic. While it is set in SW Wisconsin, the focus is much more on the people than the area.
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