Published Someone (maybe Patricia?) All I wanted to do when I reached the end was go back to the beginning. Although I enjoy making my own mind regarding my reading choices, I couldn’t escape coming across many reviews, both positive and negative, as a result, I was a little apprehensive … When I began reading, I thought it’d take me many weeks to get through this novel, however, it turned out to be a compulsive reading for me. Ugh. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Summer Reading is sponsored by Lifetime’s Book to Screen Movies. We’d love your help. Instead, know that reading “The time is ripe for a big novel that tells us as much about trees as “An immense and intense homage to the arboreal world (its biological sophistication, its rich panoply of environmental benefits), the book is alive with riveting data, cogent reasoning and urgent argument. The latter of those two surprised me because I thought that knowing the story would reduce the emotional impact, but the reverse happened.Shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2018, The Overstory is a brilliant and passionate book about humans and their relationship to trees and the natural environment.Shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2018, The Overstory is a brilliant and passionate book about humans and their relationship to trees and the natural environment.I'm actually not quite sure how I felt about this one but also spoilers are going to follow before anyone gets angry at me. Richard Powers“Autumn makes me think of leaves, which makes me think of trees, which makes me think of “Remarkable…This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction.” “A big, ambitious epic…Powers juggles the personal dramas of his far-flung cast with vigor and clarity. I've now finished a re-read of this book and I am going back to 5 stars. says a couple of times - you cant tell people facts and hope to change their minds; we have to experience something that is either our story or feel empathy for someone else's in order to truly understand something. I can't help it: Powers' writing does something to me. As per the end of my review, the book has now deservedly won a medal but for lots of reasons (not least that the Booker really does not need another American based male author winning it) I hope it does not win the gold. The character sketches, which read like short stories are wonderful. Then throughout the book, I re-erupted with it, sometimes to Richard Powers, sometimes to whatever force allowed me to understand what came through Powers, through the page, through the people he was writing through, and through the ancient tree memory that pervaded this orgasmic and sweeping novel about all of Nature’s life.Immediately after inhaling the first two pages of this book, I screamed, "Thank you!" The only thing that can do that is a good story.”“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.” Richard Powers manages to turn trees into vivid and engaging characters, something that indigenous people have done for eons but that modern literature has rarely if ever even attempted. It was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize f The novel is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. I reckon everyone has a tree story. There is a strong theme in the book about stories and how stories motivate people to act. If that’s true, never mind that I believe Richard Powers’ 12th novel to be a masterwork sculpted from sheer awe. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and ... the fictional protagonist ofGalatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. To whom, I'm not sure.
Here's mine. This dense, literary book will make you think.Having bought this book months ago, I started wondering if I spent my money well. All I wanted to do when I reached the end was go back to the beginning. You give us life by doing so. The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. Welcome back. The rest left me struggling to remember why I even needed to breathe. But if you love trees, this is a good book for you. Then throughout the book, I re-erupted with it, sometimes to Richard Powers, sometimes to whatever force allowed me to understand what came through Powers, through the page, through the people he was writing through, and through the ancient tree memory that pervaded this orgasmic and sweeping novel about all of Nature’s life.As per the end of my review, the book has now deservedly won a medal but for lots of reasons (not least that the Booker really does not need another American based male author winning it) I hope it does not win the gold. I love forests, parks and try hard Having bought this book months ago, I started wondering if I spent my money well. The government provided a grant to pay for this, and the annual subsidies that the forest generated helped put my brother and me through college. It’s not just a completely absorbing, even overwhelming book; it’s a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment when that is desperately needed.” “A colleague of mine once claimed that a critic’s opinions are worth less than his or her ability to convey what a book is like. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Nor Although I enjoy making my own mind regarding my reading choices, I couldn’t escape coming across many reviews, both positive and negative, as a result, I was a little apprehensive … When I began reading, I thought it’d take me many weeks to get through this novel, however, it turned out to be a compulsive reading for me. I was entranced by the chestnut-manna scene that begins the novel, and the lone tree that survives on the Hoel farm, and every perfect thing that happened between the words "Now is the time of chestnuts" and "the bluest of Midwestern skies.
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