Author: kansas

The first meeting of the BooBooks book club will convene this coming weekend, starting on Sat., Oct. 22.

That’s not the only reason it promises to be a special event, however. This will also be a rare instance of reading a book after a calamity which that very book predicted. Every line of this book presages the consequences of Katrina. We will discuss this, not only with the wisdom of hindsight, but also from the eerie perspective of foresight.

In preparation for that, I want to mention a few things:

• Come, whether or not you’ve read the book. I will provide a kansas Cliffs Notes version–quick and dirty–both as a review for those of you who have read it and to bring the rest of you up to speed.
• In addition to everybody else who is welcome. . .if you also happen to be a biologist, marine biologist, ornithologist, environmentalist, or just plain somebody who knows Louisiana, y’all come. We could use your knowledge to make sure we get our facts right.

• Those of you who have read it know there are many people and places that Tidwell talks about and if you’re like me, you really want to know what happened to them during or after Katrina. Did they survive? Where are they now? What about their towns, their boats, their families? If any of you readers feel like being investigators and trying to locate some of that info, I think we’d all be very grateful. I’ll do what I can to find out, too.