BOOK CLUB


Book Club Meetings:

WMC Book Club meets approximately every six weeks at The Thinking Spot in Wayzata, usually on a Sunday at 4 pm. All books have a nature-related theme. Members are welcome to attend even if they haven't read the book! Attending the discussion counts as one hour of advanced ed, and reading the book counts as two.  

Sunday March 16, 4 p.m.: Brave the Wild River 

IN PERSON: held at The Thinking Spot, 3311 County Rd 101 #4, Wayzata

Our March book selection is Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, by Melissa Sevigny, a spell binding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.

This is an open group, so join in as your interest and schedule allow. Contact Lee Scholder with questions. And for planning purposes, please let Lee know if you'd like to attend either March gathering.

Sunday April 13, at 4 PM: WMC Book Club

IN PERSON: held at The Thinking Spot, 3311 County Rd 101 #4, Wayzata

Our April book selection is Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard by Douglas Tallamy. The book shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. It’s practical, effective, and easy—you will walk away with specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard.

This is an open group, so join in as your interest and schedule allow. Contact Lee Scholder with questions. And for planning purposes, please let Lee know if you'd like to attend the April gathering.

Upcoming: On June 1 we'll discuss The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey.




Past Books:


2025

 

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa Sevigny (March 2025)


Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper (Jan/Feb 2025)


What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman


2023-2024


The Invention of Nature: Alexander Van Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf 


Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo


Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie


Immense World by Ed Yong


Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman


A World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul


Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Sumard


Blue Mind: The Surprising Science that Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do by Wallace Nichols


Fen, Bog, and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx 


The Lichen Museum by Laurie A. Palmer


Owls of the Eastern Ice by Johathan Slaght


Beaver Land: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip


Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson


For Love of a River: The Minnesota by Darby Nelson


The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whitely


Soil by Mathew Evans


Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough