Favorites from Botanical Librarians; or Too Much to Read, Too Little Time

Here's what librarians read in the summer!

From the Atlanta Botanical Library:
Arvigo, Rosita. Sastún.
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus: a Novel.
Fleeson, Lucinda. Waking Up in Eden.
Hansen, Eric. Orchid Fever.
Hansen, Eric. Stranger in the Forest.
Hogan and Peterson. The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World.
Laurance, William. Stinging Trees and Wait‑a‑Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist.
Ray, Janisse. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.
Ray, Janisse. Pinhook. (these last 2 are decidedly Southern*)

From San Luis Obispo CA Botanical Garden:

Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. (Published in 1968, the author tells of his quest to experience nature in its purest form.)

Barbato, Joseph and Lisa Weinerman, eds. Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places. (31 prominent novelists, journalist, and nature writers capture personal places in the United States and why they are meaningful to them.)

Carey, Ken. Flat Rock Journal: A Day in the Ozark Mountains.

Masumoto, David Mas. Epitaph For a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm. and Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Saving. (Slow farming reveals the art of living, which for California farmer Masumoto is the kind that notices each change of light and temperature and produces heirloom peaches with juice that runs down your chin.)

And from the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia:

This is both hilarious and instructive:
The $64 tomato by Alexander, William, 1953‑.‑‑ Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.

If you want to read something really scary (and a very good read):
Dirt: the erosion of civilizations by Montgomery, David R. ‑‑ University of California Press, 2007.