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This book was ok.. I may re-read the e book at some point.

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3.5/5

Excellent novel! Raising environmental awarness is only one of its fortes.

Follows three storylines, eventually interwoven - from Natural Scientist William in England 1851, Beekeeper George in USA 2007 and Tao in a dystopian China of 2098 where bees have died out and tells of relationships between parents and children and humans and nature.

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This is crazy! Bees are like little miracles! I‘m still fixated by bees after reading the tagged book and now this...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9616351/Two-honeybees-work-lift-bottle-...

I‘m still thinking about the tagged book. I wish it had gone more into details about a bee‘s life.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-asked-leading-entomologists-what-s-the-smar...

This is heartbreaking enough but having just read the tagged dystopia about what happens to the world if all the bees died off, it makes this even worse!

https://apple.news/AbNDvc2DjTqCbUUIYR37gqQ

A good book with 3 story lines in 3 countries in 3 eras with sympathetic as well as maddening characters describing a human catastrophe following the collapse of life-giving bee colonies. Some parts of the 3 stories felt inappropriate for the novel and only when the book focused on bees did it finally work well & I loved this part. Sadly the book ended with a lecture I didn‘t like or appreciate. #foodandlit by a Norwegian author. #Norway

4 historier som vävs ihop i en av vår tids ödesfrågor.

Lots of progress audiocrafting to the tagged book!

I‘ve chosen the tagged book off my tbr for my next audiobook. It‘s by a Norwegian author so satisfies #foodandlit #Norway and part is set in #China so it also works for #readingasia2021.

This would be an incredible bookclub read. Although I didn‘t love it (all three mcs are pretty unlikeable), I liked the families, I enjoyed the storylines, I thought it was a well-crafted novel, I think it‘ll stick with me, and I‘ve come away knowing a lot more about Colony Collapse Disorder than I went in with! (Knowing more is a good thing!)

Started this lovely yesterday - my #bookspin for December, and a gift from Helen @squirrelbrain a little while back (I‘m not good at reading books right away).

Three storylines. The futuristic China after The Collapse is holding me strongest right now. The fact that something so major could happen that our way of life changes forever just feels par the course now 😕

After this, I‘m going full-on fluff!

I enjoyed reading this, although it waited for 11 months on my bookshelf. I am not sure though if I want to read the sequel. It was good, but not awe inspiring.
🐝🐝🐝

#readingtime #summer #tgif #thehistoryofbees

Also..
Ich war wahrlich nicht so begeistert wie die Mehrheit der Leser, dafür sind mir die Männer in diesem Buch zu sehr auf die Nerven gegangen. Generell war es eher eine Geschichte der Menschen, statt der Bienen...
Kann man lesen, muss man aber nicht!

Schon lange stand das Buch auf meiner Wunschliste und dann fand ich es eines Tages im Bücherschrank 😍
Habt ihr es bereits gelesen?
Ich bin gespannt, ob es mich auch so begeistern kann wie die Mehrheit!
Habt einen feinen Sonntag!

This book has definitely helped me decide to actually sign the petition to reduce the use of synthetic pesticides for the conservation of biodiversity 🐝🐝🐝

Thanks for the tag @batsy

#7days7covers #CoverCrush

For seven days I will post a favorite cover with no explanation.

Do you want to join @Siri_reads

Fakten auf eine menschliche Weise rübergebracht, gut zu lesen, wenn man romane mag.

I fell ill last night so I spend many hours with this audiobook today. Yes, it is an important topic and if I didn‘t already have shivering attacks I certainly would have gotten them while listening.

But I‘m glad I only borrowed it instead of buying because the stories that connected the history of the bees often didn‘t persuade me. Strange males not communicating properly are used as a means to create a family story. Didn‘t work for me.

I‘m about half through with this. Have to say that up to now I can‘t understand where all the hype around this book is coming from.

Concerning one plot line, I definitely could say an hour ago where it will end. And the other two, well, I can‘t relate with Samuel and George very well. For me, they belong to the category “strange fathers”. Samuel is so thin-skinned, he ignores his family completely. And why can‘t George accept Tom‘s interests❓

Just started this while having a bite for dinner. I‘m not very far in, 20 minutes maybe, but it already gives me the chills.

Homo homini lupus. *sigh*

Well, that‘s just _one_ of the interesting books found by browsing my library‘s catalogue …

i‘ve seen this book yesterday when we made a visit and remembered that, some years ago, there was a buzz around it. So I thought I maybe read it and _that_ rang a bell with regard to my online library‘s catalogue. And as you see, I was right.

I now have 2 books and 2 audiobooks to finish but I couldn‘t resist. Didn‘t want someone else to snatch it away.

My day off yesterday I shopped at our "competitor's" shop because sometimes you need to go to the town over to see books you don't see everyday every week ?. I mean I didn't announce that I'm a bookshop owner... I think most book shopping should be accompanied by anonymity and silence... aka leave me alone and don't recognize me as Pete from Pages Aplenty ?. Good time, good finds, and good bargains ?.

Finally finished it. I think it was just a bit too long and I had trouble with the switches from one time to another. Book is set in the past, the now , and the future. However I learnt a great deal about bees and how important they are and how if we are not careful we could be in big trouble if their destruction is allowed to go on.
A lot of honey on toast consumed during the reading. @MrsMalaprop

I liked it, but perhaps not as much as the hype made me believe I would.

This is not the tagged book, Lundy‘s latest novel is not in the database

This is a advent calendar, naturally taking place before Christmas. We meet Julian and his family. Recently they‘ve experienced a huge loss, Juni, the oldest daughter has died. So the Christmas spirit hasn‘t reached the family, but one day Julian meets Hedvig. And so the story begins

A book about loss, grief and family.

Not the tagged, but this is Lunde‘s latest book, a Christmas story with illustrations by Lisa Aisato

#RedBooks #SeasonsReadings

Just when I thought all the discounted Halloween stuff was gone, a Scaero showed up in the Safeway clearance cart. Hello, dessert.

I'm on the fence with this book; interested, but maybe not engaged enough to spend 240 more pages with it. It doesn't help that Lunde loooooooves comma splices and I loathe them. Hello, punctuation-induced cringefest.

I have INTENSE PLANS for the rest of the evening.

I could barely get through this (I forced myself since it's for the book club I run at work). I just found it dull. I couldn't connect with any characters and the writing felt flat and unemotional. I've felt similarly about other translations; I'm not sure if this is a product of translation itself (the translation is lacking something the original has), or if European fiction has more of a tendency to be written that way in the first place.

I‘m not sure why this wasn‘t a great book for me, it has many of the elements that should have made it a pick. Just fell a little flat. The novel revolves around three stories in three different time periods connected by bees, or lack thereof. The moral: be ecology centered, not human centered.

I started a new “break book.” This book suggestion came from a podcast. It‘s very much out of my comfort zone.

Definitely not what I was expecting, but interesting in its own right. Lunde weaves together three different narratives all connected through bees - she dissects their families and their relationships, and allows these characters to grow. A slow burn; a little tragic, but beautiful and hopeful all the same.

📖 The History of Bees 🐝🐝🐝 - Cli-fi + dystopian = ❤❤❤

👧 Hazel Gaynor - Read two of her books so far and they did not disappoint!

🎥 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - A dark & fun movie!

😋 Oh honey! 🍯🍯🍯

Thanks for fun #LetterH #ManicMonday @JoScho !!! 🤗💖

I‘m so stoked to read this! The premise sounds amazing. Can‘t wait to see what it‘s all about ☺️🐝

This is a beautiful book. The 3 distinct voices all entwine to tell a tale that hits close to home. Maja Lunde has written a masterpiece which really makes you think about the future trajectory of the world if we don't make changes to limit our impact on the world.

I also discovered ReadTracker, what a fab app!

#Savethebees🐝 #TimeForChange #Books📚 #BookNerd🤓 #Bees🐝 #SummerReads🌞😎 #Sunday 🌞

Thoroughly enjoying this book. There are 3 distinctive voices which fit with their era but also entwine together to shape this story with bees at the very heart

#SummerReads #books #TooHotNotMovingJustReading #Bees #Booknerd

Today's book haul 🛍

As a amateur beekeeper, I‘m super excited (and a little saddened) by the premise of this book!
I had no idea that hand pollination became a thing in parts of China in the 1980s. 😢

Thanks @RachelO for the gorgeous postcard! You say you‘ve had a ‘bee-thing‘ going on recently....
I try to grow bee-friendly plants in my garden and this year I‘ve had some red mason bees nesting in my bee box. Totally fascinating, there was a section about them on Springwatch recently. You can see where they‘ve plugged up the holes with soil and bee spit once they‘ve laid an egg! There‘s pollen in there ready for when they hatch next spring!

Has anyone ever read this? Is it good?

Today's beach read - three interweaving tales set across 250 years all linked to beekeeping - though one of them I enjoyed reading about far more than the other two.

I went to a local Bee Festival yesterday where I bought this locally produced honey and decided to read The History of Bees.

The book focuses on three main characters who live in different eras (1852 England, 2007 USA, 2098 China). Each character‘s life is shaped by their relationship with bees.

This is my second bee related dystopia this year, but I liked this one better. I didn‘t love it for reasons that would provide spoilers.

❤️🐝❤️

I put another book in the Little Free Library tonight and took this Norwegian example of dystopian SF marketed as litfic in exchange.