It has taken me a couple of months to work through one of Amazon's free Kindle reads for April, The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes. I'm a little torn on how to frame the review. In general, I enjoyed the story but to work through the long descriptions of trees by our fourteen year-old main character was tiresome. I wanted to "leaf" at times and so I did, with the book sitting until I had another long flight, lingering.
When I was younger, I worked my way through a suggested list of 100 classic reads. I don't know if it was Faulkner or Conrad or Sinclair that broke me with long sentences or descriptive phrases but I don't have the patience. I want to skim ahead to make progress rather than work through the imagery.
Despite my dislike of this writing approach, however, I think my struggle was important to understand the other character's perspectives in The Eagle Tree. March Wong loves trees. He wants to talk, think, share, and climb them endlessly. The evolution of his interactions with others in the story is a strong part of why this book pulls the heart strings in the end.
I did also learn lot about trees.
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