I was debating whether or not to do my usual write-up this year. It didn't feel like I read that much and I wasn't sure I had many five-star experiences, as far as books go. But it turns out that in 2019, I finished 30 books,...
This week, I’m wrapping up my Summer of Tree Books reading
with The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate:
Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben. As you might imagine, this
book is full...
The third entry in my Summer of Tree Books is a unique
reading experience. As for dimensions, the book is coffee-table book size: 11 ½
inches by 9 ½, and although it’s not a hardcover, it’s laminated and fairly
hefty....
This week, I am traveling with my kids throughout the northeast, spending much of our time in and around Boston. I'll post next Friday about my reading progress with the final two Summer of Tree Books. For now, here is:...
Whenever I read a book I find truly great, I almost don’t
want to say too much about it. Because I think you should read it for yourself and if you’re
like me, you won't want many details going in. The Overstory is one of
those...
This week got away from me and although I've been reading The Overstory (239 pages in now), I won't be giving an update this week. Instead, enjoy this lovely poem, which should hold you over quite nicely until next Friday,...
Here’s the trouble I’m having with The Overstory (which isn’t
really much of a trouble at all): it isn’t a fast read. Each story/chapter
feels like a place to stop and think, and I also take breaks while reading to look...
Reader, I ain’t gonna lie—I haven’t made much progress this
week on The Overstory. But I plan to, soon, and even though I didn't get many pages
read, I’ve been thinking about the book nevertheless, and about trees,
and...
Interspersed throughout Jessica Francis Kane’s new novel,
Rules for Visiting, are lovely drawings of trees, like this one of the yew. The
drawings are by Edward Carey and in the book, they represent “tree sheets”
given...
On this second Friday of summer, I'm still reading The Overstory, by Richard Powers, and while perhaps that first ecstatic response has cooled, I'm still enjoying it quite a bit. I'm about one hundred pages in....
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
