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> Tag: Trees

Mind? Blown.

The Tree by Colin Tudge

May 24, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Well, I started this book knowing very little in the way of botany, and I feel compelled to point out the process of placing plants into various families is Seriously Bonkers, to use the scientific term.  The two biggest families are, in layman’s terms, the roses and the daisies.  But the roses also include grape vines, cabbages, oak trees, and rubber trees, while the daisies have carrots, coffee, ash trees, and olive trees for relatives.  Apparently it all has to do with DNA, but wow.  […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #botany, Amazing stuff, Colin Tudge, Do tres have a brain or what? I'm thimking yes., science, Trees

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #botany, Amazing stuff, Colin Tudge, Do tres have a brain or what? I'm thimking yes., science, Trees ·
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Trees move slowly. Sometimes books about trees do, also.

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben

May 2, 2021 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

Peter Wohlleben is a man to be admired. Having graduated from a forestry school in Germany, he worked for the forestry commission for more than 20 years but eventually became disillusioned by the common use of what he considered to be damaging forestry practices. He began applying his own ideas as manager of an ecologically-friendly beech forest, and he shares his knowledge and passion in the multiple books he’s written about trees. The Hidden Life of Trees, a New York Times bestseller, aims to make trees […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, forestry, KimMiE", Peter Wohlleben, science, Trees

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: CBR13, forestry, KimMiE", Peter Wohlleben, science, Trees ·
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Heartwood

Greenwood by Michael Christie

March 29, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I have not been able to sit still and read for a long time. With the pandemic, my mind can rarely engage with a book for any sort of marathon session. Michael Christie has figured out the antidote, at least for me, with his tightly packed, well-plotted and bracing book about four generations of the Greenwood family. His narrative inspired me to reflect on my own long family history in this country, to consider the things I do and don’t know for certain about my […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Canadian Lit, Michael Christie, Trees

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Canadian Lit, Michael Christie, Trees ·
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Andy Hirsch how do you know so much about so many different subjects?

Trees: Kings of the Forest by Andy Hirsch

September 4, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

First Second publisher is my kryptonite. It does not matter if I have just read one of their Science Comics, I must read another. And this time, it was the fault of my library that I picked up Trees: Kings of the Forest in this series. You see, I was looking for another book and they did not have it, and since you can check out five books at a time, I figured better find another one. And with its big, cheesy grin, Acorn told […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Andy Hirsch, plants, Richard Karban, Science & Nature, Trees

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:269 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Andy Hirsch, plants, Richard Karban, Science & Nature, Trees ·
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Trees are the Best

The Overstory by Richard Powers

March 13, 2020 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

Richard Power’s novel The Overstory is organized as a tree: roots, trunk, crown and seeds. The roots are eight individual short stories of immigrants coming to this continent, families planting trees, a man’s life saved by a tree, a boy falling out of a tree. The stories are unconnected and even the trees don’t hint at how they may or may not be drawn together.  For this reason, the trunk of the story is a bit difficult to read initially because five of the characters […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Environment, richard powers, the overstory, Trees

reginadelmar's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Environment, richard powers, the overstory, Trees ·
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I’m as shocked as anyone that I love a book about trees!

Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori

September 24, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR11bingo: Not My Wheelhouse BINGO, diagonally: Cannonballer Says, Not My Wheelhouse, Own Voices, Illustrated, Reading the TBR I may have been called a tree hugger in my day, but botany has never been my area. I can enjoy plants from a purely aesthetic point of view, but reading an entire book dedicated to trees? For my tree fix, I’d prefer to turn to Joyce Kilmer’s 12-line poem and call it a day. But Jonathan Drori’s Around the World in 80 Trees. . . I’m speechless! This […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #botany, #notmywheelhouse, cbr11, cbr11bingo, illustrated, Jonathan Drori, KimMiE", Lucille Clerc, Not My Wheelhouse, Trees

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:43 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #botany, #notmywheelhouse, cbr11, cbr11bingo, illustrated, Jonathan Drori, KimMiE", Lucille Clerc, Not My Wheelhouse, Trees ·
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