We’re continuing our quarterly series featuring local luminaries choosing a favorite book to present and discuss.  Insightful.  Thought-provoking.  Stimulating.  Challenging.  Local historian and newspaper writer Jim Wise has chosen to discuss Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (with some references to other Bradbury titles such as The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes.)  Wise writes, “To me, Bradbury is one of American lit’s under-appreciated prose stylists—maybe because he’s usually labeled a science fiction writer (science fantasy, maybe; science fiction, not).  He writes the sort of stuff you can wallow in, reading and re-reading just for the pleasure of his words and rhythms; he also has the knack for picking pieces of what’s personal and everyday and making them everybody’s and wonder-full.  And the wonder endures, but not without a tempering of darkness to make it all the more real.”