Status Updates From The Island of Missing Trees

I left on 30% of this book. Really liked the characters , that are vividly drawn, and the novel handles grief, trauma, and reconciliation with sensitivity
The plot was not catchy

“When I found you, you were already thousands of years old.“

Boek veel te lang weer laten liggen - maar nu eindelijk uit. Wederom een parel! Fan van Elif Shafak

I’ve never read a book where a fig tree is one of the characters, until now of course.

Tak czułam, że to autorka dla mnie, pięknie i wrażliwie pisze ♥️

The rotation between the two narrative annoy me, but interested to continue to see how the story goes on.

I think i bought this book almost 3 years ago🤣

the fig tree claiming that adam & eve were tempted by a fig instead of an apple is so funny bc honestly a fig ain’t allat. sorry not sorry

estoy enamorada de un arbol como os lo explico

..Meanwhile, the second generation chose to suppress the past, both what they knew and did not know of it. In contrast, the third generation were eager to dig away and unearth silences.
How strange that in families scarred by wars, forced displacements and acts of brutality, it was the youngest who seemed to have the oldest memory.”

She was, however, troubled to observe deep rifts between family members of different ages. Way too often, the first generation of survivors, the ones who had suffered the most, kept their pain close to the surface, memories like splinters lodged under their skin, some protruding, others completely invisible to the eye.”

“Someday this pain will be useful to you.”

nearly the end of this book and i don’t want it to end

elif şafak’a bayılıyorum bayılıyorum…
i feel like a tree being in love with a man would sound weird if anyone else wrote about it but she makes it make sense.
she narrates a teenager just as brilliantly as she narrates a fig tree

„I wonder if the reason why I am more inclined to melancholia than any of them is because I am an immigrant plant and, like all immigrants, I carry with me the shadow of another land?“ ❤️‍🩹

a new fave??????????????

“because there is one thing I have learned: wherever there is war and a painful partition, there will be no winners, human or otherwise.”

The audiobook narration for this deserves an award

460 mein buch hat ~490

I'm feeling nostalgic and homesick 😣

It is a weird feeling that this book is evoking in me. At first I thought I was not enjoying the book that much, but the fig tree chapter do make me reflect about nature. The other day I was driving and was thinking about the trees, whether they were seeing me and whether they were living a good life. I felt weird thinking about that, but weird in a good way, if that makes sense.

“Time is a songbird, and just like any other songbird it can be taken captive. It can be held prisoner in a cage and for even longer than you might think possible. But time cannot be kept in check in perpetuity.
No captivity is forever.”

“A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, who deserves our love and who deserves our hatred and who, our sheer indifference.
Cartography is another name for stories told by winners.
For stories told by those who have lost, there isn't one.”

Why did I wait so long to read this???

i mostly binge read this on the plane to south africa and have been reluctant to put it down since

Mixed feelings at the moment. It's good, but I don't feel that urgency to get back to it that I do with books I"m really enjoying.

The way her characters move throughout stories, wow.

Work read

Love it!!

In love with this.