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The Overstory
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- Finding the Mother Tree4
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What have I written about slow reading?
You keep returning to reading fewer books, more closely. In January you set a goal of one long novel a month, and your notes on The Overstory say the slow pace is the point.
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- 1Reading goals 2026
- 2The Overstory
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# The Overstory
Close to [[Finding the Mother Tree]].
Same science, told as fiction.“Kept surfaced a note I wrote two years ago, and it solved a plot problem I had been stuck on for a month.”
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