by Robert Kull, $21.50

Robert Kull decided to spend a year alone on a remote island in Patagonia’s coastal wilderness. He wanted to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he’d been seeking all his life.

But for a cat, named Cat, and his thoughts as companions, Robert Kull built his shelter, foraged for food, and survived alone for a year. He experienced both the real storms of nature as well as the inner storms of his mind and spirit.

Robert Kull kept a diary and these notations form this thoughtful bbok. Kull may not have found all the answers he was seeking, but he developed deep insights about the tensions between nature and technology and a kind of isolation that can occur within busy society.

Reading Solitude, even in the comfort of one’s home, somehow transports the reader to reflect on one’s own life and the beauty of nature around us.

The next Plovers Book Club book is Zeitoun by Dave Eggers