RaveToast...as beguiling as it is unsettling ... It’s a mammoth constellation of a book, connecting the dots between storytelling and science, questioning the difference between those things at their core, and dissecting our relationship with our planet ... On the surface, the fact that we are not separate from the world around us is entirely obvious, and yet Macfarlane writes these things with such joy and reverence that reading this book is akin to rethinking trodden paths. Re-seeing patterns. Waking up ... Some of this book truly is nail-biting stuff ... Underland as a text isn’t exactly linear. It is scattered, zooming in on tiny details, then out again to the big picture, branching like its own cave system. The chapters communicate with each other much like the Wood Wide Web, where trees whisper underground, and I found it mesmerizing.
