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by Book Club Host
Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:53 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
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Re: The Silent Spring Book Club starts here on July 9th!

Today is the day we start discussing Silent Spring in earnest! I have read the Introduction and Chapter One and look forward to posting a few thoughts when I have a moment (either later today or tomorrow). You're wholeheartedly encourged to start start new threads of your own by clicking the "N...
by Book Club Host
Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:37 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – What's your edition?
Replies: 7
Views: 33962

Re: Silent Spring – What's your edition?

Yay! You're here! I love hearing about the physical books you're reading. Thanks for signing in. This is going to be fun ...
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:10 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Schedule
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Silent Spring – Schedule

A guide for getting started. Feel free to contribute ahead of or behind at will. Week One, July 9 - 15 Chapters 1 - 3 A Fable for Tomorrow The Obligation to Endure Elixers of Death Week Two, July 16 - 22 Chapters 4 - 6 Surface Waters and Underground Seas Realms of the Soil Earth's Green Mantle Week ...
by Book Club Host
Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:02 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – What's your edition?
Replies: 7
Views: 33962

Silent Spring – What's your edition?

I thought it might be fun, as an introduction, to hear what edition of Silent Spring you're reading and where you picked it up? I found this 1962 edition at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public LIbrary. It is due this week so I have to return. Alas. SilentSpringCover.jpg The pen and ink illustra...
by Book Club Host
Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:18 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Background
Replies: 0
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Silent Spring – Background

Here are the two pieces of media that inspired me to pick up Silent Spring right now. A Sense of Wonder – a Rachel Carson biopic based on a one-woman play of the same name. The film is set during the period when Carson was writing and speaking about Silent Spring while also coping with cancer. Highl...
by Book Club Host
Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:52 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
Views: 51197

Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!

Welcome to the Silent Spring Book Club! In honor of the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring we will read and discuss it here. To get started: 1. Get your hands on a copy Silent Spring and start reading. 2. Register a user name to participate on the forum. (See "register" uppe...