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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
3.5 rounded up to a 4.
An enjoyable read on the topic of Bees!!!
The History of Bees follows three story lines - George a beekeeper in 2007 US, William a naturalist in 1852 England and Tao a manual pollinator in 2098 China. Each story has a connection to bees as well as parents and their connection to their children. Really bees do represent our future so I find this appropriate!
I liked how Lunde had a common thread between all the storylines. I like that this is a fiction book as maybe it will reach more people. I really hope that we can conquer Colony Collapse Disorder.
I did find the middle to drag a bit but overall really enjoyed The History of Bees.
An enjoyable read on the topic of Bees!!!
The History of Bees follows three story lines - George a beekeeper in 2007 US, William a naturalist in 1852 England and Tao a manual pollinator in 2098 China. Each story has a connection to bees as well as parents and their connection to their children. Really bees do represent our future so I find this appropriate!
I liked how Lunde had a common thread between all the storylines. I like that this is a fiction book as maybe it will reach more people. I really hope that we can conquer Colony Collapse Disorder.
I did find the middle to drag a bit but overall really enjoyed The History of Bees.
började läsa den här boken utan någon förexisterande information om den eller maja lunde som författare. kan klart säga att jag blev lyckligt överraskad. kom att falla för bokens koncept, maja lundes precisa skrivsätt och jag fann mig själv heja på karaktärer jag vanligtvis skulle valt att förkasta. genom loppet av att ha läst boken har jag känt mig motiverad, uppgiven, hopplös och hoppfull.
fyi har redan beställt lundes senare bok ’blå’.
fyi har redan beställt lundes senare bok ’blå’.
08/05/2018
2.5/5 stars
It wasn’t extremely bad but it also wasn’t anything too spectacular!
What I didn’t like:
• I wasn’t really interested in the three stories, I basically did not care what happened because it wasn’t exciting enough
• I didn’t care about the characters either! Not even about the young three year old boy. I especially couldn’t stand George! Damn he’s an a**
• for some reasons it didn’t really feel like I was reading from three different times/decades/centuries! I can’t tell you exactly why though...
• the writing wasn’t anything special either, for my taste way too many unnecessary information
• maybe I’m stupid but I don’t really get the whole bee thing?
SPOILER AHEAD!!!!!!
• I knew it was a freaking bee sting from the beginning!!?? Was it supposed to be a mystery?
2.5/5 stars
It wasn’t extremely bad but it also wasn’t anything too spectacular!
What I didn’t like:
• I wasn’t really interested in the three stories, I basically did not care what happened because it wasn’t exciting enough
• I didn’t care about the characters either! Not even about the young three year old boy. I especially couldn’t stand George! Damn he’s an a**
• for some reasons it didn’t really feel like I was reading from three different times/decades/centuries! I can’t tell you exactly why though...
• the writing wasn’t anything special either, for my taste way too many unnecessary information
• maybe I’m stupid but I don’t really get the whole bee thing?
SPOILER AHEAD!!!!!!
• I knew it was a freaking bee sting from the beginning!!?? Was it supposed to be a mystery?
Wow. Så golvad av denna bok. Älskar hur kataltärerna knyts ihop i slutet. Älskar allvaret och personportätten. Ojoj.
Mam problem z ocenieniem Historii pszczół- a nawet nie bardzo chcę to robić, ponieważ są to trzy całkowicie inne historie. Wszystkie miały one swoje lepsze i gorsze strony, każda była inna i na innym poziomie, więc nawet wyliczanie jakieś średniej jest bezsensowne. Każda z nich jest materiałem na pełnoprawną osobną powieść ale całkowicie rozumiem dlaczego autorka postanowiła to przedstawić akurat w takiej formie. Całość jest bardzo przyjemna ale raczej jako odskocznie od jakieś innej powieści ponieważ tą można się znudzić. Do tego mogę dodać że styl pisania jest piękny ale nie przesadzony a wręcz bardzo subtelny i delikatny. Podsumowując: polecam przeczytać i przemyśleć i nie napalać się na fajerwerki.
Story was good but took too long to get into. Stopped reading after chapter 10 I think. I don't think I was in the right headspace for this.
This was a very good book. It wasn't exactly to my tastes (very dark, deep and sad, cutting a little too close to home at points and I tend to read for escapism), but it was ambitious and driven and had an unexpected and surprisingly uplifting concept that didn't quite match the tone of the narrators.
(Spoilers following)
Split across three timelines, the plot follows William Savage in England, 1851, as the several depressed biologist finds reason to live through the building of a new, better beehive, only to beaten to the patent not once, but twice, rendering his work useless.
In 2007 in America, through George Savage we find that William's supportive daughter Charlotte took her father's drawings and a son to America and built a family legacy on her father's beehives that has evolved over the generations into George's honey farm. When his bees are killed by Colony Collapse Disorder, George is forced to give up the family legacy of building the hives by hand and order pre-made hives to try and save the business. His 'wayward' writer son Tom finally comes home to help him try to save the farm.
In 2098 in China we meet Tao, a worker who pollinates fruit trees in a dystopian future where the bees have died and the world has been plunged into a hunger crisis. On a day trip with her young son, Wei Wen, he is hurt, and rushed to hospital. Tao embarks on a journey across her dsytopian world to try and track him to a hospital in Beijing, discovering a library along the way, in which she finds a copy of Thomas Savage's book 'The History of Bees', chronicling the years leading up to 'The Collapse on his father's bee farm. Tao realises that her son was most likely in anaphylactic shock. She is found by the government and informed that yes, her son was stung by a bee. She finally gets to see him, but he is dead. However, he becomes an emblem of hope, for discovering the bees have returned. Tao gives the government 'The History of Bees', which contains the drawings of Savage's Standard Hive.
And so, the hopeless design that William Savage thought wasted in the first arc, that plunged him into depression, becomes the light of hope for the whole of humanity two hundred and fifty years later.
I didn't like William. It's incredibly difficult to read a character so manically depressed, so devoid of hope, but the idea behind the story, that he didn't know what his work would one day mean, stuck with me. That's why it was impossible to review this book without a plot summary.
(Spoilers following)
Split across three timelines, the plot follows William Savage in England, 1851, as the several depressed biologist finds reason to live through the building of a new, better beehive, only to beaten to the patent not once, but twice, rendering his work useless.
In 2007 in America, through George Savage we find that William's supportive daughter Charlotte took her father's drawings and a son to America and built a family legacy on her father's beehives that has evolved over the generations into George's honey farm. When his bees are killed by Colony Collapse Disorder, George is forced to give up the family legacy of building the hives by hand and order pre-made hives to try and save the business. His 'wayward' writer son Tom finally comes home to help him try to save the farm.
In 2098 in China we meet Tao, a worker who pollinates fruit trees in a dystopian future where the bees have died and the world has been plunged into a hunger crisis. On a day trip with her young son, Wei Wen, he is hurt, and rushed to hospital. Tao embarks on a journey across her dsytopian world to try and track him to a hospital in Beijing, discovering a library along the way, in which she finds a copy of Thomas Savage's book 'The History of Bees', chronicling the years leading up to 'The Collapse on his father's bee farm. Tao realises that her son was most likely in anaphylactic shock. She is found by the government and informed that yes, her son was stung by a bee. She finally gets to see him, but he is dead. However, he becomes an emblem of hope, for discovering the bees have returned. Tao gives the government 'The History of Bees', which contains the drawings of Savage's Standard Hive.
And so, the hopeless design that William Savage thought wasted in the first arc, that plunged him into depression, becomes the light of hope for the whole of humanity two hundred and fifty years later.
I didn't like William. It's incredibly difficult to read a character so manically depressed, so devoid of hope, but the idea behind the story, that he didn't know what his work would one day mean, stuck with me. That's why it was impossible to review this book without a plot summary.
Very satisfying read, I enjoyed it a lot. Characters are well drawn, and though flawed, I kept pulling for them to become their better selves and wanted their stories to end well.
Important discussion, some slight scientific information (discussions or bee anatomy, what they do, why they're important).
Interestingly written. The generational type characters allow for a full look at what each time line looks at and expects from the generation following. Also a look at the full life span of bees was interesting.
While this book was interesting (hopefully that's the last time I'll use that word...) I did find my attention swaying from the book.
Interestingly written. The generational type characters allow for a full look at what each time line looks at and expects from the generation following. Also a look at the full life span of bees was interesting.
While this book was interesting (hopefully that's the last time I'll use that word...) I did find my attention swaying from the book.
