Have you discovered any new favorites while wind-bound and relaxing in your hammock at your favorite BWCA campsite? I found these little gems at a state park store last summer - MN author! As I grow more and more comfortable with being solo in the wilderness, I am discovering the time and freedom to learn about the flora and fauna. So these have been part of my summer reading. How about you?

I'm a fan of the Cork O'Conner Series by William Kent Krueger. I'm on Desolation Mt right now.

Two authors with funny sounding names - Ivan Doig and Farley Mowat. I can really get lost in books by these two. Farley's "And No Birds Sang" is my pick for my September Quetico trip. Here's a couple classics I'd recommend.

Ivan Doig This House Of Sky

Farley Mowat Never Cry Wolf

This one about the Klondike Gold Rush was pretty good. Floor of Heaven

MN_Lindsey: "I'm a fan of the Cork O'Conner Series by William Kent Krueger. I'm on Desolation Mt right now."

Liked the first few a lot but then he got too...mystical, I suppose is a nice way to describe it. Enough deviation from the direction of the first two that I had to bail.

Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Knocked out a good bit of it in Woodland Caribou a couple weeks ago.

TomT: "Two authors with funny sounding names - Ivan Doig and Farley Mowat. I can really get lost in books by these two. Farley's "And No Birds Sang" is my pick for my September Quetico trip. Here's a couple classics I'd recommend.


Ivan Doig This House Of Sky


Farley Mowat Never Cry Wolf "

Love Doig! Learned about him from HoHo. Will check these others out! Thanks.

jillpine: "

TomT: "Two authors with funny sounding names - Ivan Doig and Farley Mowat. I can really get lost in books by these two. Farley's "And No Birds Sang" is my pick for my September Quetico trip. Here's a couple classics I'd recommend.



Ivan Doig This House Of Sky



Farley Mowat Never Cry Wolf "

Love Doig! Learned about him from HoHo. Will check these others out! Thanks. "

HoHo? There’s a dude who’s been missing in action from this board. Yeah, I stumbled on Ivan Doug when I had a temp job in a book warehouse in the mid 90’s. We got a discount on books we bought and the title “This House of Sky” caught my fancy so I ordered it. I’ve since read a few others. His book The Sea Runners is pretty awesome too.

Now that HoHo has moved to the Ely area he doesn't seem to be as interested in talking about canoeing. Now he is just out all the time doing it.

I miss him on the board, though. And I miss his wonderful trip reports.

Spartan2: "Now that HoHo has moved to the Ely area he doesn't seem to be as interested in talking about canoeing. Now he is just out all the time doing it.


I miss him on the board, though. And I miss his wonderful trip reports."

Me too. I followed him on another board, loved his birding and trip reports. I was Rockyshoreline. I switched usernames because I disliked being called rocky. Nothing against squirrels, just the movies I guess.
Actually come to think of it, I found an old trip report to Cherokee with hoho and the Spartans! My son and I followed it somewhat on a recent trip this spring. Thought of you guys when we found the twin points camp site. Pretty area. Anyway, HoHo put me onto Doig's books and I loved them.

MN_Lindsey: "I'm a fan of the Cork O'Conner Series by William Kent Krueger. I'm on Desolation Mt right now."

Absolutely love William Kent Kruger's Cork O'Conner series! GREAT READS!!!

This year I am bringing up a classic - Walden by HDT

CampSnkRpr: "Walden by HDT"

Good one.

Just finished reading this - Gunflint Burning. I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend

I have read a few good ones this summer.

The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky -- a history of Gloucester, MA and its commercial fishing industry. Heavily focused on groundfishing (Cod)

Island Folk by Peter Oikarinen -- a history of Isle Royale on Lake Superior, told via conversations with some of the people who lived there before NPS came in.

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger -- I never saw the movie, and I've heard it sucked, but the story is pretty interesting. I'm currently reading this one so can't judge yet.

Next on my List:

The Imperiled Cutthroat Trout: Tracing the Fate of Yellowstone's Native Trout by Greg French -- this one was published by Patagonia in 2016. Has some really beautiful color illustrations as well.

Tuna: A Love Story, by Richard Ellis

I just finished a WWII "novel", true story based upon interviews with the author's grandfather, aunts, uncles, etc. It is called WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES and the author is Georgia Hunter. I literally could not lay it down once I started, and finished it in a couple days.

Highly recommended. I know it isn't a paddling book, but still a very good read.

I’m going in for 31 days starting July 15
My reading list includes:
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Reynard
The Overstory by Richard Powers
I asked friends for books that inspired or changed their life and this is a few of their suggestions

huntfun2: "Just finished reading this - Gunflint Burning. I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend "

+1+

Last year for a trip down the Frost River, I thought a re-read of Conrad's Heart of Darkness would be appropriate. I was going downriver rather than up, but I let that slide.

We should get HoHo back here.

+i on Ivan Doig/ This House Of Sky...a memoir.