North Woods
by Daniel Mason · first published 2023
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…for well written books but there are a lot of bizarrely high rated pop culture books so it’s not perfect. Another strategy is to look at books shortlisted for the major awards. That’s how I came across North Woods by Daniel Mason (Pulitzer short list) which is by far the book I enjoyed most this year. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71872930
on “The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list” ↗Something I've thought about recently is how loud forests should be. Daniel Mason names this loss explicitly in the wonderful North Woods, namely that "[b]etween 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening." Likewise, Cat Bohannon's stellar Eve notes that…
on “Map of forest sounds from around the world” ↗