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April 19, 2021 By B

Reading with… Sally Cole-Misch

Sally Cole-Misch is a writer, author and environmental communicator who advocates for the natural world through work and play. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree in environmental education and international water policy from the University of Michigan. Her novel, “The Best Part of Us”, reflects her love for the Great Lakes Region and her respect for Indigenous People.

On your nightstand now: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, Horizon by Barry Lopez, The Island Within by Richard Nelson, and The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins and The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena on Libro

Favorite book when you were a child: Here Comes the Bus by Carolyn Haywood and all Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne

Your top five authors: Hard to choose just five, but consistent choices that rarely disappoint are Alice Hoffman, Sue Monk Kidd, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louise Erdrich, and Christina Baker Kline.

Book you’ve faked reading: I’ve never faked reading anything, but I admit I’ve never been able to finish James Joyce’s Ulysses, in spite of loving A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man ever since I first read it in high school lit class.

Book you’re an evangelist for: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer for its intelligence, kindness, and the calm gratitude I feel every time I read any portion of it.

Book you’ve bought for the cover: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, and because the inside was just as beautiful also bought her latest, Vesper Flights

Book you hid from your parents: I didn’t hide reading Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged from them, but they were surprised I was reading someone with such an ultra-conservative philosophy. At 18, I enjoyed the sense of self-reliance she portrayed in her characters.

Book that changed your life: Just one? I have to cheat and say Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver and Merle’s Door: Lessons From a Freethinking Dog by Ted Kerasote

Favorite line from a book: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens : “Months passed, winter easing gently into place, as southern winters do. The sun, warm as a blanket, wrapped Kya’s shoulders, coaxing her deeper into the marsh. Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close but whenever she stumbled, it was the land that caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”

Five books you’ll never part with: The Maytrees by Annie Dillard, The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman, The Overstory by Richard Powers, One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus, and my grandmother’s note-filled copy of Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Book you most want to read again for the first time: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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‘Books and Wine’

Our book choice for August 9th will be “The Lives of Diamond Bessie” by Jody Hadlock. Our featured winery is not a winery at all. We have managed to cover all the wineries on Leelanau Peninsula, save for a few that we are featuring when the season slows a bit for them. Therefore, we will be enjoying a special cocktail that pairs well with the book. This libation is just as unique as Diamond Bessie!
Along with each person’s RSVP, we will respond with the special recipe and the location of our meeting. We will be meeting virtually, as well as in-person for the first time. The zoom link will be sent as usual, Tuesday morning for those wish to join us that way!

RSVP at baybooksmi@gmail.com.

Best Sunday Night Bookstore Poetry Meet Up

Bring what you love, what you wrote, or just to listen. Third Sundays at 4:30pm. *Not Hosting During the Pandemic*

Author Event at Bay Books- Marlee Grace

Author Marlee Grace of “How to Not Always Be Working” and “Getting to the Center”, will be joining us on August 12th at 5:00 to share life tips through their interactive books—-we’re so excited! Their books are for anyone who is looking to show up to their own life, this one true journey of being alive — filled with examples and radical wisdom.

Join us for a live interview, Q & A, book signing and some radical self-reflection! Please reserve your book and your seat by calling 231-944-6809 or by email at baybooksmi@gmail.com  This event will also be live streamed through FB August 12th @ 5:00

Author Event at Bay Books- Lynne Rae Perkins

Children’s author and illustrator, Lynne Rae Perkins, has hit it out of the park again with her newest children’s chapter book, Violet and Jobie in the Wild. From the life experiences of two mice, we see their perspective on how to truly adapt to change and embrace something new as a challenge, not an obstacle.

Join Lynne on September 17th @ 4:00 for an interview, Q & A and book signing. This event will also be live streamed through FB Sept. 17th @ 4:00

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