Half beautifully illustrated instructions and musings on observing, recording, and analysing the natural world, no matter where you live, and half five-year calendar journal for recording observations.
More inspirational than educational, though there are suggestions for becoming an observant naturalist and ways to record and analyse information year over year. A book made up of longish essays on the white pine in American history mostly northern New England history , arranged in roughly chronological order from about to the s.
The stories, detailed and succinctly written, engaged my imagination, though the organization of the book felt a bit haphazard. I love this novel, set in a small town in Texas and narrated mainly by two young female voices.
The characters are so well-drawn, the writing, the pacing, the plotting so perfect. The titles of the books she reads in her spare time and for class are recorded. Her actions and thoughts most days are recorded, from waking up to sleep. Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare. Nicely plotted and well-written crime fiction concerning London Judge William Barber doing his assizes in several outlying towns in — i. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.
I read this for a bookgroup. While I too think science is critical and human-made climate change is occurring, those long dialogues, mostly between Dellarobia and the lepidopterist Ovid Byron, interrupted the flow of the story for me.
