Reading Nature: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet

Join us for Reading Nature, our new book group on the natural world! Our theme this fall is Books For a Changing Climate. This book group, which meets on the second Thursday of the month at 6:00 pm in the Aldrich Room, is co-sponsored by the Howe Library and the Hanover Conservancy. Discussions will be lead by some combination of Barry Matthews and Savannah Bailey of the Hanover Conservancy and Jared Jenisch of the Howe Library. Attend in person or online via Zoom. Email Jared at jared.jenisch@thehowe.org to get on our email list or for more information. Book group attendees do not need a Howe Library card to check out book group books -- they are available to all residents of the Upper Valley. Copies are available at the reference desk. October: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, by Kate Marvel "Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it’s easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isn’t just happening in those models. It’s happening here, to the only good planet in the universe. It’s happening to us. And she has feelings about that. Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief—but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted."