A Book of Bees, Sue Hubbell
A Book of Bees, Sue Hubbell
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A Book of Bees
And How to Keep Them

Author: Sue Hubbell

Narrator: Lauren DePorre

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2024

Synopsis

Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally demanding as it is rewarding. Exploring the progression of both the author and the hive through the seasons, this is “a book about bees to be sure, but it is also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude; the seasonal rhythms inherent in rural living; the achievement of independence; the accommodating of oneself to nature” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Beautifully written and full of exquisitely rendered details, it is a tribute to Hubbell’s wild hilltop in the Ozarks and of the joys of living a complex life in a simple place.

About Sue Hubbell

Sue Hubbell was the author of eight books, including A Country Year and New York Times Notable Book A Book of Bees. She wrote for The New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian, and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the “Hers” column of The New York Times.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 25, 2009

To date, the most endearing and encouraging book I've read on the subject of Beekeeping. Ms. Hubbell sets the scene beautifully, honoring the calendar of both bee and beekeeper. All of her factual information is presented accurately and with gentle humor. An example: "The textbooks say that bees wil......more

Goodreads review by Quartzen on March 02, 2017

This short book following the author's life and work as a beekeeper in the Ozarks in the late 1980s is a delight, sharply capturing the place and time and details of everyday life and the rhythms of the seasons with a smooth, easy to read narrative voice and clear explanations of the author's beekee......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on July 23, 2014

My favorite animal is Apis mellifera and among many, many things in the world that make me sad, very few make me sadder than the danger to the survival of bees. World agriculture may suffer because of decreased pollination, people may have to miss out on honey, and this wonderful and fascinating spe......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on November 17, 2017

3.5 stars I think it's important to know, at the top, if you're interested in reading A Book of Bees that there is both a glossary of terms and an index in the back. The former would have been useful to me as there were places where beekeeping lingo went over my head, the latter would be useful for p......more

Goodreads review by Richard on September 15, 2024

Very insightful..I never knew the protecting of bees from mice, moths, insecticides that are sprayed ….diseases that can destroy a hive or its honey. Good read😊......more

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