Book Your Stocking: December 5
Every day of December, readers of all stripes are sharing their reading wish-lists and/or give-lists. Note on book links: titles are linked to their publishers, or to your nearest bookstore. If you are rural and without bookstores, share this post with your librarian or library's Facebook page.Please welcome today's reader, Kathleen Callum.
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Reading Wish-List
a.k.a To-Do List
Literature, Science Fiction, Mystery
The Unquiet Grave: A Novel (2017) by Sharyn McCrumb
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2017)
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction by Grace Dillon
The Sorrow of Archeology by Russell Martin (2005)
Emergence by C.J. Cherryh
Food/Garden/Agriculture/Health/Ecology/ClimateSeedfolks (2004) by Paul Fleischman
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (2018) by David Montgomery
Einstein’s Beets (2017) by Alexander Theroux.
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health (2016) by David Montgomery (reread)
A Sanctuary of Trees (2012) by Gene Logsdon.
Being Salmon: Being Human (2017) by Martin Lee Mueller
Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (2007) by Kate Colquhoun
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body and Ultimately Save Our World (2018) by Josh Tickell
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
(2005) by Giles Milton
Current Events, History and Other Non-Fiction
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Fourth Edition 4th Edition
by Gloria Anzaldua.
The Wigwams in My Backyard (2017) Rick Will
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
Métis
So Few on Earth: A Labrador Métis Woman Remembers (2010) by Josie Pennys
The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith: Portrait of a Métis Woman, 1861-1960 (2012) by Doris Jeanne
Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) (2015) by Michel Hogue
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region,1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History) (1991) by Richard White
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| Kathleen Callum, photo used by permission |
About today's reader:
Kathleen Callum operates GEOARCH, Inc., a geological and archeological consulting firm, along with her husband Robert Sloma (who also works in Central Washington as a tribal archeologist). Together, they have a talented teenage musician son who goes to Lewis and Clark High School, live in a 1928 bungalow which they are restoring, and garden on their front lawn.
They first moved to Spokane in 2004 when Kathleen was hired by the U.S.D.A. as an archeologist. Kathleen specializes in Anthropocene landscape change and geoarcheology, eastern Washington history and archeology, the history of the Northwest French Métis cultural contact, ethnobotany, and traditional farming methods. She is one of the volunteer WSU Master Gardeners of Spokane, Spokane County Master Composters/Recyclers, President of Spokane Community Gardens, and an advocate of Food Not Lawns.
She gives public talks about community gardens, growing vegetables, how regenerative agriculture restores local economy and fights climate change, or her own personal story of garden therapy after suffering from a stroke. Recently, Kathleen started facilitating a chapter of the Inland Northwest Food Network’s (INWFN’s) “Food For Thought” book club in Spokane. She often randomly reads whatever catches her eye at Auntie’s, on display at libraries, or at book sales. She re-reads favorite authors like Annie Proulx, Sharon McCrumb, Gene Logsdon, Nevada Barr, and C.J. Cherryh until the books are dog-eared and worn.
Kathleen Callum operates GEOARCH, Inc., a geological and archeological consulting firm, along with her husband Robert Sloma (who also works in Central Washington as a tribal archeologist). Together, they have a talented teenage musician son who goes to Lewis and Clark High School, live in a 1928 bungalow which they are restoring, and garden on their front lawn.
They first moved to Spokane in 2004 when Kathleen was hired by the U.S.D.A. as an archeologist. Kathleen specializes in Anthropocene landscape change and geoarcheology, eastern Washington history and archeology, the history of the Northwest French Métis cultural contact, ethnobotany, and traditional farming methods. She is one of the volunteer WSU Master Gardeners of Spokane, Spokane County Master Composters/Recyclers, President of Spokane Community Gardens, and an advocate of Food Not Lawns.
She gives public talks about community gardens, growing vegetables, how regenerative agriculture restores local economy and fights climate change, or her own personal story of garden therapy after suffering from a stroke. Recently, Kathleen started facilitating a chapter of the Inland Northwest Food Network’s (INWFN’s) “Food For Thought” book club in Spokane. She often randomly reads whatever catches her eye at Auntie’s, on display at libraries, or at book sales. She re-reads favorite authors like Annie Proulx, Sharon McCrumb, Gene Logsdon, Nevada Barr, and C.J. Cherryh until the books are dog-eared and worn.
