by Joan Anderson – $21.95

This book chronicles the life of one woman during the year that she chose to walk away from her ordinary life and “live by the sea”. Joan Anderson realized, when her children had left home, she had replaced her own dreams with their dreams, but they no longer needed her and her life with her husband was stagnant.

She had no idea what she wanted to do with the rest of her life and so, in essence, took a “time out” from her husband (who had just been offerred a new job in another city to go live on her own by the sea. During the course of that year of self-discovery, Joan determined that she was “an unfinished woman” and that her life was full of possibilities.

While this is more a book about ‘mindful living’ than about the environment per se, the author does learn to appreciate her natural surroundings in new ways and shares them eloquently with the reader.

The next book is any book by David Suzuki – July 8th