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I live in the oak bluffs above the Illinois River with my husband and two standard poodles, Barnum and Bailey. I read mostly narrative non-fiction--especially related to food, gardening, nature and travel. I love trying to cook just about any cuisine under the sun and attempting to nurture any new shade perennials and native Midwestern plants that hit the garden centers. I am a birder with a North American life list just over 600, the co-author of a tallgrass prairie-centered K-5 cirriculum, and involved in a variety of local eco-causes. I love to travel, especially when I've had a chance to delve into the culture beforehand. However, I'm also more than willing to go most anywhere at a moment's notice. I would like to find more time to pursue art and creative writing ... or maybe just read about them.
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Currently readingThe Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri
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posted by BFish at 9:26 am (EST) on Jun 12, 2009
Thanks for your message. I don't have any suggestions for a book on geoengineering, but between my wife Kay (who's not on LT, but has a much larger library than I) and myself, we came up with the following suggestions:
"The Sea and Summer" aka "Drowning Towers" by George Turner - follows the effect on Melbourne of sea level rise. A very good novel.
"The Drowned World" by J G Ballard - another novel of sea level rise. Dating from 1962, its strength is not in the science, but in the psychological effects
"Heavy Weather" by Bruce Sterling - ferocious storms in a post-greenhouse world
"The Carhullan Army" by Sarah Hall - a post-climate change, post-Peak Oil dystopian novel
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy also has a strong secondary storyline about climate change on Earth
There's also a YA novel called "Floodland" by Michael Sedgwick - I haven't read this one, but it sounds very relevant from the description.
I hope these help!
Regards
Tim
posted by timjones at 8:57 pm (EST) on May 29, 2009
posted by DetailMuse at 2:21 pm (EST) on May 6, 2009
posted by DetailMuse at 12:37 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009
posted by DetailMuse at 7:57 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2009
The river is an amazing place. Even above Starved Rock to about Marseilles it is still pretty remote and serene. (Except for the barge traffic!) When we first traveled on the rivers, we were astonished at how much is moved on the inland waterways and by the size of the barges.
The Great Circle is pretty much as you described it. Smaller craft (like ours) do not have to take the St. Lawrence. There are canals that make for a shorter trip. Of course, given the time, the St. Lawrence would be more fun.
I picked up History of Florence by Francesco Guicciardini from the library, but it is not going to help with Inferno. It does not start until 1378. I am going to try Machiavelli. I think his started in 1200. I am also trying to get on interlibrary loan a history by a contemporary author. When I get back to it, I will continue through all of it, too. It does not make sense to me to stop.
posted by LisaCurcio at 9:49 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009
Thanks for the comment on my review of The Tulip--it's good to know I'm not the only person who had a hard time with that book. Hopefully we can both find better homes for our copies!
Cheers,
Tris
posted by Trismegistus at 11:06 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2009
Just had to say hello here after looking at your profile. My husband and I are boaters and have been up and down the Illinois a few times. I guess that means we should have waved at you as we went by. We just love the river trips, and our goal for retirement includes the "Great Circle".
Lisa
posted by LisaCurcio at 9:23 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2009
You didn't actually send me any answers to the quiz!
- TT
posted by TheTortoise at 5:59 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009
I read Continental Drift last fall, immediately after finally getting around to Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, so I'm not sure if there's a definite thematic reason but I always think of them together. Bits of Drift reminded me of the oldest sister in her hotel I think, trying to pretend that she had managed to build up some (albeit racist) defense against discomfort and need, and never fully realizing (or choosing to face, or whatever) her own implication in the ugliness she wanted to escape. Some of the characters in Drift seem to drift along in a similar state of anxious self-absorption, trying to defend themselves from mental/psychic pain, but then Banks cuts to other characters whose lives are in more immediate danger and, somehow, it makes both sides of the story more compelling. And then, over the course of the book, those disparate lives become more and more entwined; by the last 50 pages or so I couldn't put it down.
Just planning my first veggie garden here in NE Indiana, this week. I've done flowers and herbs before, but this summer I hope to add some beans and cucumbers and maybe tomatoes to the mix... But what a late last-frost date we have around here! Probably going to start everything inside this weekend. (fingers crossed...)
posted by Fullmoonblue at 2:22 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2009
This bit "Readily admitting his guilt, but unwilling to admit to any remorse..." immediately made me think of Camus's The Stranger, and now I'm excited to reread and compare -- just wanted to write to say thanks for that.
E
posted by Fullmoonblue at 10:35 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2009
"A pleasure to read, although "foodies" trouble with me with their seeming obliviousness to environmental/cruelty issues (e.g. she eats shark fin soup and sea turtle at a Chinese restaurant in the Bay area). I enjoyed traveling with her through the carefree 60's and 70s (inexpensive world travel, the counterculture, etc.) and envied her self-assurance and success at surviving, seemingly unscathed, a childhood complicated by a bipolar mother, who, incidentally, created nothing but chaos in the family's kitchen."
Best, Carol
posted by tropics at 8:20 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2009
My quarterly Chicago History Museum brochure arrived in the past day or two and I notice that the museum has planned a bus tour on Sin in the Second City. It's set for Sat April 4th and, alas, I can't go that day. Maybe they'll offer it again. Info on their website.
posted by lindapanzo at 1:34 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2009
Check out Chef Rubber (www.chefrubber.com) they have a caviar spherification tool kit(caviar mold and other stuff you need to make caviars) for I beleive $50.00, which is a steal I think that the caviar maker was $99.00 when we got it, when it first came out.
DS
posted by bruce_krafft at 7:56 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2009