The Hidden Life of Trees

A lot of fascinating info in this book, and I recommend it - but it gets kind of tedious to read by the end, as a lot of information is repeated from one chapter to the next. I think there is a lack of organizational structure so it feels almost stream of consciousness in certain parts - not what I generally want from a science or ecology book. I didn't mind the anthropomorphising of trees as some reviewers do - it's poetic and shows Wohlleben's care and tenderness for them - but I wish that anthropomorphism had been accompanied by more in depth scientific explanations of what is actually happening. Sometimes they were there, but other times we were left only with a metaphor and no actual explanation of the mechanism behind what was happening.

I definitely learned things I didn't know before though! And I love that. But in terms of popular science/environment/ecology books I have read, this was good but not my favourite.