This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!
Banning State Park was established in 1963. “September 1, 1894, the great Hinckley forest fire swept through the area.” This was an enormous disaster for the area, and the state of Minnesota. Read a book about a disaster of any sort, especially if there is a happy ending. You can find more books on this subject on our reading group podcast Reading With Libraries, episode 405: Natural Disasters.
We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all – including a nice book – Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!
We shared these books:
- The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin
- Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
- Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, by David von Drehle
- Pompeii, by Robert Harris
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander