25 Books You Can't Put Down
Go on, take what you need. A perfect mystery, a mouthful of poetry...;
O serves up a smorgasbord of the
summer's best reads.
By Cathleen Medwick
Plan Bee by Susan Brackney
208 pages; Perigee
"It takes more than stripes to make a honeybee, honey." Beekeeper Susan Brackney's Plan Bee (Perigee) is a close encounter with a high-functioning (and endangered) society that is essential to our own—a delightful primer on old queens, mellow Italians (of the apian kind), venomless drones, and other hive dwellers whose lives may be short, but oh so sweet.
From the
July 2009 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
