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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I really enjoyed this family saga, spanning over 100 years. Each of the individual stories/time periods was interesting in itself, as well as blended together masterfully. The characters were strong and believable. The only thing I didn't really like was the ending. I thought it left a key issue (the inheritance) hanging unnecessarily. As a physical object, the book was also a delight, with the edges of the pages shaded to resemble tree bark, and the rings of a tree demonstrating the story's time line. I have mixed feelings about this book. As I was reading if, I was less than impressed, but as I reached the conclusion, my opinions became considerably more positive. The writing is good - clear, flowing sentences that read well and convey the sense easily. The characters are mixed and varied and generally believable - although the slippery slope to substance abuse seems very overdone. I think it is the plot, and the way it is structured in the book, that troubled me. The plot is expansive and made convoluted by the structure of the book - the action takes place at different times over 130 years, with the periods jumbled - some later parts are presented while the details come much later in the book. This led me to be aware of what was going to happen,minus some of the details as to why they happened. This is a fairly standard device, but for some reason, I was less convinced and more annoyed than I should have been by the structure. But in the end the author brings things to a strong conclusion, and my appreciation grew significantly. So good, so many gems in the heartwood of this multigenerational story of a complicated family tree, or family forest as Christie calls it. Christie has crafted the perfect book for a pandemic read, especially for British Columbians. “During hard times people crave the consolation of other hard times, whether those of the past or an imagined ruined future to ease the pain of the present day they are stuck with (60).” This book has both. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: thrumming a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie's effortless sentences and working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood and blood--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Her ex-fiance (a lawyer) shows up and books a private tour with her to tell her she might actually “own” the island, given her family history and the history of the island (that is, it may be part of an inheritance for her). The book continues by backing up in time through a few generations of Greenwoods to when Jake’s grandmother was a baby… and one generation earlier in 1908 when Jake’s great-grandfather was a kid (along with his brother). The brothers were very different: Everett ended up a vagrant and in jail; Harris was hugely wealthy via his lumber business, cutting down all the beautiful trees that Jake loves so much.
The bulk of the story followed Harris and Everett and that’s what I liked the best. Have to admit it took a short bit for me to get interested and to figure out what was happening and who the different characters were as we went back in time. I liked the way this one was done: we actually started in 2038, and gradually made our way to 1908 through the generations, then moved forward again back to 2038. ( )