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by Book Club Host
Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:29 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
Replies: 3
Views: 21543

Re: Silent Spring – Favorite words

Chapter 5:

"The chisels of frost and ice split and shattered the rocks."
by Book Club Host
Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:45 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – The Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Replies: 0
Views: 25742

Silent Spring – The Rocky Mountain Arsenal

Interestingly, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal described by Carson as a source of "devastating" groundwater contamination, is now a National Wildlife Refuge. http://www.rma.army.mil/ Let's contrast Carson's telling of what occurred on that site in the 1940's - 50's with what the Rocky Mountain ...
by Book Club Host
Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:59 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
Views: 51188

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

It's Week Three and the door has opened on Chapters Seven through Ten.

Week Three, July 23 - 29
Chapters 7 - 10
Needless Havoc
And No Birds Sing
Rivers of Death
Indiscriminately from the Skies
by Book Club Host
Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:59 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
Views: 51188

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

It's Week Three and the door has opened on Chapters Seven through Ten!

Week Three, July 23 - 29
Chapters 7 - 10
Needless Havoc
And No Birds Sing
Rivers of Death
Indiscriminately from the Skies
by Book Club Host
Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:51 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
Views: 51188

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

Thanks for mentioning Sandra Steingraber. Her work looks interesting.

http://steingraber.com/
by Book Club Host
Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:07 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
Views: 51188

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

How's everyone doing with their reading this week? I finished Chapter Three last weekend but didn't make much progress durning the work week. Will kick it up a notch over the weekend. I'm finding Carson's writing readable but intense and have so far enjoyed the slow pace. How about you?
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:02 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Words
Replies: 7
Views: 32885

Re: Words

DavisChurches, you said, "I'm wondering how difficult it might have been in the early 60's to have an outsiders view of the propaganda machine that was in full swing back then ..."

Same here.
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:36 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Words
Replies: 7
Views: 32885

Re: Words

Igmalu1, there's a new book out you may find interesting. (Perhaps you've already seen?) Breasts , by Florence Williams addresses some of the issues you brought up. I haven't read it yet, but Williams was interviewed, entertainingly, by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air . Recommended. "Just What's...
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:08 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
Replies: 10
Views: 47562

Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?

For what it's worth, I see skepticism as healthy but cynicism deflates me. One of the things I've been wondering about this week is how movements get made.
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:56 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
Replies: 10
Views: 47562

Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?

Thanks for the beautiful posts. Suzanne, I bet I'd have felt exactly the same way had I read Silent Spring in '74. The world has changed much since then, wouldn't you say? DavisChurches, Beautiful image and thoughts. I, too, love "linger." Carson's writing is gorgeous and I'm warming to th...