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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors | David George Haskell

I‘m so excited to start reading this 🤗

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melissajayne

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed | John Vaillant

My reading plans for #weekendreads

rachelsbrittain

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AllDebooks

A Tree a Day: 365 of the World�s Most Majestic Trees | Amy-Jane Beer

Hi, tentative 👋

I'm slowly starting to feel better. February has been a tough month. All I've been doing is resting and reading. My daughter brought me snowdrops to cheer me up. A sign spring is springing. 🌞

I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Bookwormjillk Glad to see you back! We've missed you! 4d

KadaGul @AllDebooks I know the feeling of being sick 🤧😷🤒🤮. I spent the whole of January and February being sick and finally starting to get better. 4d

AnnCrystal Wonderful that you're recovering 🙏🏼💝📚💝. 4d

Liz_M Welcome back (and posting with a vengeance!) I hope spring arrives soon and with our, better health! 4d

Librarybelle Glad you‘re feeling better! 3d

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Daisey

A Tree a Day: 365 of the World�s Most Majestic Trees | Amy-Jane Beer

From the reading for February 22 of A Tree a Day comes this fun but weird word!

epiphyte: a plant that grows upon another for support only, not as a parasite

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords #NaturaLitsy

julieclair I am totally loving this book! 5d

Daisey @julieclair I can‘t seem to ever remember to actually pick it up two days in a row, but I am loving it as well. 5d

julieclair Have you reached the page about the cork trees yet? It totally made me aware of my choices when buying wine. 4d

Daisey @julieclair I did, and I also found it really interesting. I never would have realized choosing real cork was beneficial to the sustainability of the cork trees. 2d

julieclair I know, right? But I will think about it now. 🍾 2d

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Bookwomble

Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales | Sara Maitland

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It took me a while to read this, but I really enjoyed it. Maitland mixes personal impressions of British forests with history, ecology, forestry and fairy tales, and does so in an engaging way.
I liked her retelling of the stories, some as storyteller variations of the original, some taking a different narrative perspective, some as sequels, and some reimagined in the modern day.
I particularly liked her Hansel and Gretel, the siblings grown,👇🏻

Bookwomble ... trauma-bonded and held in the healing bosom of Hansel's marital family.
Her Red Riding-Hood is one of the modern ones, and was quite dark and disturbing, I felt.
It was good to read slowly and savour each of the month- based chapters 4🌳 7d

TheBookHippie Hansel & Gretel was my favorite of this book. 7d

The_Book_Ninja You‘re prolific this month Wombie…skiving off work?🤭 7d

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Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja I'm crap at booking my annual leave as I find it hard to postpone client appointments, so I end up having leave mandated by my manager as the end of the holiday year approaches. So, short answer, yes, I'm skiving off work, catching up on reading 📚 and jamming up your feed! 😁 (edited) 7d

Bookwomble @TheBookHippie It was a touching story 🥲 7d

TheBookHippie @Bookwomble ♥️♥️♥️♥️ I‘m loving your posts. 7d

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble My deduction skills prove to be Sherlockian again! Add pipe, deerstalker, violin, waterfall and syringe emojis here 7d

Bookwomble @TheBookHippie Thank you ☺️🥹 7d

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja 🪈🦌🏹🎻💦🏞️💉🕵🏽 Best I could do with the available tools! 7d

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Jen2

The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession | Amy Stewart

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Delightful

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Anna40

Barkskins | Annie Proulx

bailed

I did make it to chapter 27 (there are 70 chapters) and I did, really did want to hang in there but I fear I‘m in a reading slump and a 700 page novel is perhaps not the best book to get me out of it.

Lcsmcat It is long. I did it on audio and had to renew it multiple times! 1mo

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AllDebooks

A Tree a Day: 365 of the World�s Most Majestic Trees | Amy-Jane Beer

#NaturaLitsy #Dailybuddyread #ATreeADay

Well, that's a wrap on January.
🍃 Are you enjoying our daily read?
🍃 Do you have a favourite entry for January?
🍃 Have the entries prompted you to research more on that day's subject?

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

AllDebooks @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk @Read4life @TheBookHippie @kspenmoll @TEArificbooks @Cuilin @DebinHawaii @Chelsea.Poole @dabbe @Chrissyreadit @CBee @julieclair @tdrosebud @Soscha @Seabreeze_Reader @StaceGhost @Daisey @bcncookbookclub 1mo

Cuilin I love starting my day with this book. I love the Major Oak tree in Sherwood Forest and I also love the road of trees in Northern Ireland. 1mo

TheBookHippie Yes! I loved that Theresienstadt was in the book and everyday I‘m in awe. Such a perfect book for the year! 1mo

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CBee I need to catch up but am very much enjoying it! 1mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin I loved the Major Oak too, visited it many times. It is a lovely book. 😍 1mo

AllDebooks @TheBookHippie glad you like it. I like the variety of posts, so interesting. 1mo

AllDebooks @CBee no rush, just enjoy. X 1mo

Read4life I‘m just enjoying this book. I start my day with it out on the hammock with my coffee. It‘s just a perfect start to each new day. 1mo

AnnCrystal 🌱💝💝💝. 1mo

Faranae 😂 I think I'm the only one who doesn't like the book. I thought I would, but it doesn't go deep enough at all, and some of the trees I already knew about, I got annoyed because of how she talked about them (for example, focusing on the death of Kiidk'yaas instead of its part in Haida life, the saplings created from cuttings, the use of the wood in Six String Nation, etc).

It did give me something to track daily for Storygraph though! 1mo

dabbe I'm loving it and even got Matt reading it with me. 🤩 The only parts that sadden me, though, are the trees that no longer exist. 🥺 1mo

TEArificbooks I‘m loving it. I thought it was going to highlight a tree species a day but I like the specific trees. I thought the 11 bonsai trees was a cute story. 1mo

Daisey I‘m thoroughly enjoying this book as well! I don‘t tend to read it every day but about every 3 days I read a few days. I‘m not sure it‘s quite what I was expecting, but it‘s fascinating. 1mo

Seabreeze_Reader I'm enjoying the daily essays, although I sometimes miss a few days and then read multiple entries to catch up. I think the reading is just the right length and if I'm curious about finding out more info, I can do more research on my on. The stories of destruction do make me sad. How could someone manage to run over a lone tree in the middle of the Sahara dessert? It just boggles my mind. So far, I still like the Emancipation Oak entry the best. 1mo

kspenmoll My favorite entry for January is 01/04-The willow tree-always loved the weeping willows. 1mo

kspenmoll @TheBookHippie Loved this info too- there is so much in this book-I adore it & its a lovely way to start my day. 1mo

AllDebooks @Seabreeze_Reader @kspenmoll 😊 1mo

AllDebooks I enjoy the variety of posts, not just actual trees but stories, art, sculpture, literary references, and history. 1mo

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DebbieGrillo

The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak

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Half the book is narrated by a sentient fig tree. This book isn't for everyone, but the poignant prose kept me hooked. 16-year-old Ada Kazantzakis in 2010s London, grappling with grief and cultural identity, and her parents, Defne and Kostas, navigating their forbidden love during the Turkish-Greek conflict in 1970s Cyprus.

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