Thank you Judy for hosting our gathering this month. After a hot week, we all expected to be out on the deck overlooking the Columbia. This fickle spring turned on us and the wind rattled the windows, so we gladly enjoyed the view from inside. We also enjoyed a pot luck for which Judy provided two delicious main entrees. The sharing of good food and friendship combined with discussions of our book and other topics always makes for a wonderful evening.
"Ancient Places" is a compilation of short essays revolving around subjects related to the history of our Pacific Northwest home. While we all agreed that the author provided interesting information, we also felt the book would have been more intriguing if there were a stronger link between the chapters. Most chapters discussed the geology of our area and some revealed daily lives of those who came before us, but a couple chapters felt disjointed from the bulk of the book.
"The climate that created them (fossils) doesn't quite match the weather we think we know. The habitats they suggest refuse to fit into neat catagories recognised by current ecologists. Yet the species that pour out of them..continue to provide a flood of tantalizing information: full of names and new directions, contradictions and unsolved mysteries."
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Ha, shows that I am in my own world...gave it a higher rating because I love the topics, but totally agree that chapters weren't tied together smoothly, and the couple that didn't seem to fit. However, I gained some great leads on further NE Washington places I want to explore!
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