Icon by Frederick Forsyth

Icon by Frederick Forsyth

A good spy novel read that I should've read before I went to Russia last year. Having been to Russia it made the book - easy to visualize and project yourself into the scene. Nothing fancy about the book nothing great no great literature just a compelling story. Read it when you need a quick read for either a break in your reading schedule or before you head over to Moscow!

The hidden life of trees by Peter Wohlleben

The hidden life of trees what they feel, how they communicate, discoveries from a secret world. A bit pretentious for a title but a very ambitious book. I've always been interested in trees I delight in hiking in them looking at pictures of them

 studying unique ones. This book has been a top seller in Germany and was only recently translated.  So when I saw the title  I thought hmm might be interesting. It is. 

Perhaps a bit more than I wanted to know more details that were less compelling presented. Though in general I found it a non-stressfull, conversational type of presentation. I deep read about half of it and skimmed about half of it. But if you like trees it's an easy choice - read it. If you don't know trees this will introduce you to the fact that they are very much ALIVE . And perhaps make it feel not so far-fetched when you see the trees interacting as they do in Lord of the Rings or Pocahontis. 


Sent from tim