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I propose a new calendar: not one autumn but twelve, a hundred. The autumn when the birches are yellow but still have their leaves; when the beeches are green but the birch leaves have fallen; when the oaks tint to the color of ripe apricots and the beeches yellow; when the oaks turn a cigar brown and the beeches curl up into crispy copper rolls. And so on: I’ve missed a few. But to call it all just “autumn”!
Daniel Mason, North Woods
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“The only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
-Daniel Mason, North Woods
I’ve been reading this book the past few days and just finished it this afternoon. It was an oddly comforting thing to be reading during the midst of *gestures* all of this, but I was particularly struck by this line towards the very end:
“The only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
Not really an encouraging quote in the traditional sense, but it did give me some comfort.
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My Best Read of the Year - North Woods by Daniel Mason
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s only September and I’m declaring my favorite book of the year. I’m just confident that if there’s another book that makes me feel more emotions than this book did that I’ll probably get the entire book tattooed along the entire length of my body. I’ve more or less been in different forms of tears for days at this point over Mason’s creation here.
The best way I can describe the tone of North Woods is like if The Haunting of Hill House book was like the show. I enjoyed that book, too, but it just wasn’t like the show in terms of mood or succession line or anything. And, instead of following a single family, North Woods follows the many owners of the yellow house on the hill.
Ghosts are very much real; characters come back frequently for visits and cameos in the lives of the new owners. Sometimes they take out the wrath they possessed before death on unsuspecting inhabitants (honestly Mary snapped with that one, IYKYK). Sometimes they lay in the moss in the clearing, forever enraptured in each other like they couldn’t do in life freely. Sometimes they come for new members despite hundreds of years between and carry on like they were married alive. And, my favorite, sometimes a symbol of themselves stands the test of time and become bigger than themselves.
Daniel Mason does a masterful job at making you attached to each and every character, whether or not you like them. He pulls no punches in terms of their morality. Some of them are relics of their time and it makes the story all the more compelling. From puritans settling the land to a faux medium to a lobotomy candidate to the depressed diabetic car crash victim, every single character pulls you in to their story and makes you feel as if you’re living right there along with them. It’s rare to find this kind of writing and I’m so happy to have found it.
Erasmus and William were the first to captivate me and make me cry, and Charles Osgood was the final one. I doubt another book will make me feel so captured for years to come much less this year. If Daniel Mason ever reads this, please continue writing. I’ll be here for whatever you come out with in the future.
books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 104
North Woods by Daniel Mason
“Sometimes, overwhelmed, she retreats into the forests of the past. …and she has found that the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
