Author: kansas

Hi, BooBookies.

A few days ago nominations were entered for the next book for us to read together and then discuss. I have listed those books below, along with Links to their spots at Powells’ bookstore so you may read about them. Or, you can go to our previous diary where there’s lots of info: LINK:

You’ll see that they’re all fiction this time. That’s because it was the sense of the group in the nominating diary that it would be nice to do fiction now and then. Therefore, voila!

Sorry to be a bit late putting this up, but since we’ve set the next meeting back to the first Saturday in Dec., I thought I could get away with it. 🙂

Please lobby for your pick!

Two questions, y’all.

The next BooBooks book club confab is supposed to be the 26-27 of Nov., but damn if that isn’t Thanksgiving weekend. Is it okay with you smarties if we postpone it by a week and do it the first weekend in Dec? Then maybe we’d better skip Dec. altogether and wait until Jan. to do the third one?

What book do you nominate for us to read? Remember our two goals: pick a book that illuminates current events and one that we can buy at Powells, as a way to help this site.

BostonJoe, are you reading this? A whole lot of us would love to read and talk about your book, but I’m thinking that might be a good one for a special, extra book club meeting and that we’d hope you would lead it?

Ready, set, nominate.

Thank you all for your wonderful participation yesterday. (LINK: to yesterday’s discussion of BAYOU FAREWELL by Mike Tidwell)
Now we know how we got here, to a place where Katrina could devastate the coast. Let’s use this diary to continue our discussion of the book and especially to talk about what happened to the coast during Katrina and what happens, or doesn’t, next.

Please bring any info you have found about post-Katrina and share your thoughts about the solutions.

And now, here’s Mike Tidwell writing after Katrina:

EVENING UPDATE: Thanks everyone for your wonderful participation today. Please look for a follow-up diary tomorrow.

Welcome to the first meeting of BooBooks, the online book club sponsored by The BooMan Tribune. We have two goals: to read together and then discuss books that illuminate current events and to benefit this site by purchasing our books from Powells book store. You are welcome here, though, no matter where you got your copy and even if you haven’t read it yet.

Our first book is BAYOU FAREWELL by Mike Tidwell, subtitled, “The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast.”

Let’s get to it.

    “Katrina was not a natural disaster,” Tidwell says in a post-hurricane interview. “Human activity set the table.”

    Because we have an usual opportunity to view this disaster both from a historical and current perspective-as if we were sitting out somewhere in space/time looking at the last 300 years-I suggest we use his book to approach the whole thing chronologically and work our way forward to the future.  

    In this first diary, let’s concentrate on pre-Katrina.