Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
2 reviews
camoo3032's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
This book is an autobiography interdispersed with science. Although both were interesting, the way they were spread throughout the book disrupted the flow of it. You never knew what the next page would contain (personal life or method of an experiment)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content and Cancer
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Misogyny, War, Car accident, Child abuse, Pregnancy, and Grief
erica_palmisano's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
A wonderful read, and an important update to what many of us remember from high-school biology and cultural ideas of competition and collaboration in evolution. This book is more a memoir of a scientist's life and work than a layperson's guide to the science on a topic. That's not a critique, but I didn't expect to have as much personal detail when I began it. I found I appreciated the context to the experiments and insights the author described the further I got into the story. It helped that I listened to the audiobook and the author's voice and personal style were welcoming and warm.
I also read this not long after Robin Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. I see many similarities, though the difference of each author's background is an obvious distinction. This book is also more straight-forwardly chronological and Sweetgrass is more a series of essays without a chronology per se. I found Kimmerer the more passionate advocate, though Simard joins in the advocacy toward the end of the book. I appreciate both as I explore what my own perspective will be toward my role as a creature in an age of over-consumption and climate change.
I also read this not long after Robin Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. I see many similarities, though the difference of each author's background is an obvious distinction. This book is also more straight-forwardly chronological and Sweetgrass is more a series of essays without a chronology per se. I found Kimmerer the more passionate advocate, though Simard joins in the advocacy toward the end of the book. I appreciate both as I explore what my own perspective will be toward my role as a creature in an age of over-consumption and climate change.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
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