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Part one reads like a CV. Not to diminish the author’s accomplishments (which are many), but it ends up just coming across as a long list of back patting. Part two is better and what I had hoped from the whole book. Could have used 50% less of part one and 50% more of part two.
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Thank you for this wonderful book! I have been giving human names to plants since I was a child. I talk to them, eat lunch with them and hug them. I am happy to know that others appreciate their gifts as well. Although I currently only have house plants, I am looking forward to some day owning my own home were I can garden, keep the trees safe and plant more trees. Thank you again, for this is amazing book!
Beautifully written - a love letter to the forest and a call for all of us to save it and in so doing, ourselves.
Listened to the entire book but the glossary didn’t make sense as an audiobook so I stopped a short way in
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this title. Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a delightful writer, and if anything, I wish this was longer! I felt like it ended abruptly after the section on the Celtic tree alphabet, and I also would have loved those sections to be longer as well. This book is more than a memoir, more than a non-fiction book on trees, more than a meditation on nature -- it's all of them combined into one delightful package! A must read for forest lovers.
Beautifully read part memoir part call for ensuring bio-diversity, part information on the importance and impact of trees.
All in a fascinating look at how folklore and science meet and how darn hard it has been for women to make a mark on science and have that mark acknowledged and listened to.
Definitely one of the best books I've read this year...
All in a fascinating look at how folklore and science meet and how darn hard it has been for women to make a mark on science and have that mark acknowledged and listened to.
Definitely one of the best books I've read this year...
I usually completely enjoy this topic, trees, and human connection. While I did enjoy the book, it did not engage me as deeply as others in this genre. The voice I heard as I read was detached, it droned and was judgemental. Maybe the trauma she communicated was too much, or perhaps her writing didn't speak to me. Am I too harsh of a judge? Her solution to climate change was simplistic, each person plants six trees a year, and I felt like she claimed much responsibility for research she was only tangentially involved with. I want to like her and her book more.