Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have the Great Lakes as setting or subject matter. All are welcome, whether or not you have read the book. No registration is required.

This month's selection is  Chainsaw Love: Field Notes on the World's Most Dynamic Power Tool  by James Card. 

Considere the most powerful of all hand tools, the chainsaw has been vital to contemporary life in ways large, small, and sometimes surprising since it first came on the market in the 1940s. Part homage, part social history, and part field guide,  Chainsaw Love  is the perfect book for chainsaw users of all stripes--from loggers to conservationists, woodworkers to weekend cabin-dwellers--and anyone curious about this magnificent and underappreciated machine.