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Book group gears up for 2010

The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats has announced its slate of books to be discussed this year.

The list includes classics such as "Catch-22" and "Frankenstein," along with books focused on history and political issues.

But the discussions begin at 6 p.m. Jan. 27 at Five Points Deli on Epps Bridge Parkway when the group gathers to discuss Thomas Friedman's best-seller "Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America."

The book describes America's current response to climate change "as that of the proverbial frog in water brought to a boil." Friedman provides ideas about how America can rise to the challenges, just as it launched a manifold attack to the Soviets' early lead in the space race.

During the year, other book choices celebrate the splendors of and threats to the natural world. Aldo Leopold's classic "Sand County Almanac" and Paul Hawken's "The Ecology of Commerce" will inspire readers to look more closely at the wonders of nature in the winter-into-spring months and beyond.

The role of ordinary people to enable change is a theme across several books. The group will read historian Howard Zinn's classic "The People's History" over two months. The book is a history of the courageous men and women who have worked to free slaves, improve the lives of factory workers, and achieve women's suffrage - rallying in myriad ways to address injustices around the nation and world.

Another choice is "There is No Me Without You," an award-winning book by Atlanta writer Melissa Fay Green about a middle-class woman in Ethiopia who provides foster care for some of the 1.5 million children in Ethiopia who have been left orphaned by the catastro

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