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Meet our She Ascends Book Club Team!
Janie and Kathleen will be your hiking guides & book club discussion leads on our Hike & Read hikes. Kathy will continue to lead discussions online through Google Meet, making connecting through book club accessible to all no matter the distance! |
February 2025
She Ascends Book Club Read. Hike. Connect. Our Peace is Every Step Forest Bathing hike in January was rescheduled due to illness, it will take place in February, but registrations were high so we are not open to more registrations at this time. The next Peace is Every Step Forest Bathing Hikes will be in May & September with registrations opening the month prior.
Next up: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (a Minnesota author) Save the Date: Sunday April 6th Hike & Discussion Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
On a winter's day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her White husband's farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron-women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.
Weaving together the voices of four women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors
Next up: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (a Minnesota author) Save the Date: Sunday April 6th Hike & Discussion Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
On a winter's day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her White husband's farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron-women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.
Weaving together the voices of four women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors
2025 Book Club line up!
We are planning to hold the hikes & discussions on the first Sunday of the month for those months listed. Locations, times, and registration links will be posted a month in advance in the facebook group and in the newsletter & website. The book is optional in the Peace is Every Step series, a supplement to the hikes.
We are planning to hold the hikes & discussions on the first Sunday of the month for those months listed. Locations, times, and registration links will be posted a month in advance in the facebook group and in the newsletter & website. The book is optional in the Peace is Every Step series, a supplement to the hikes.
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Questions:
Can I go on the hike if I didn’t read the book? YES!
Can I meet for discussion if I can’t make the hike? YES!
Do what works for you, we’d love to connect!
Our past books:
-Thirst 2600 miles to Home by Heather Anderson
-The Universe Has Your Back by Gabby Bernstein
-Find Your Unicorn Space by Eve Rodsky
-Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
-The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
-Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
-Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
-The Women by Kristin Hannah
How to Join S.A. Book Club
The best way to access the FB group is to search S.A. Book Club and ask for access.
Sign up for our email notifications HERE
Can I go on the hike if I didn’t read the book? YES!
Can I meet for discussion if I can’t make the hike? YES!
Do what works for you, we’d love to connect!
Our past books:
-Thirst 2600 miles to Home by Heather Anderson
-The Universe Has Your Back by Gabby Bernstein
-Find Your Unicorn Space by Eve Rodsky
-Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
-The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
-Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
-Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
-The Women by Kristin Hannah
How to Join S.A. Book Club
The best way to access the FB group is to search S.A. Book Club and ask for access.
Sign up for our email notifications HERE
