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Book Selections for Ryerson Reads 2010-11

Ryerson ReadsBack by popular demand!  Beginning in
September, Friends of Ryerson Woods continues Ryerson Reads, a riveting book discussion series focused on environmental literature. 
 
 
The Chicago Tribune described Ryerson Reads as a series that “recharges the mind.”   Celebrating its 7th season, the series has attracted a devoted following and promises engaging discussions.  Led once again by Ben Goluboff, professor of English at Lake Forest College, the 2010/11 book club will discuss:

 
Monster of GodSeptember 15, 2010
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by David Quammen
Quammen travels to research the fate of man-eating predators in dwindling habitats from the Carpathian mountains of Romania to Australia's Arnhem Land. 
 Silent Spring
November 10, 2010
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
A milestone in American environmentalism, Carson's Silent Spring painted the dangers of the pesticides an earlier generation had considered the heart of the Green Revolution. 


The Big Burn January 12, 2011
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
Egan's account of a 1910 wildfire in the Pacific Northwest explores the political tensions surrounding Teddy Roosevelt's forest service, and interprets American attitudes to forests. 
 

BiophiliaMarch 16, 2011
Biophilia
by Edward O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson—entomologist, sociobiologist, evolutionary thinker—reflects in this memoir on the human need to affiliate with non-human species. 
 




$15 per person, per session
$10 FRW members
 
Sign up for the entire series:
$45 per person
$30 FRW members
 
To register, visit www.LCFPD.org, or for member discount, call 847.968.3321.

A four-book series, Ryerson Reads is held every other month throughout the fall and winter on a Wednesday evening from 7:30-9pm at the Brushwood home at Ryerson Woods. 
 
For a livelier discussion, please read the book before attending the discussion group.
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