The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. 

4/5 rating. 

Book #112 of 2019. Read September 28, 2019. 

I had to think if I could actually count this as a book read since it’s a kid’s book, but with all of the long books I’ve read, we’re going for it…and because it’s a great book! I love the takeaways of this book more and more as I get older: we so often ask for the world from people and our earth, but as we age, we find that the physical things in life fade into noise, and they are not nearly as important as we once thought. As we get older, we are much more easily able to understand the boy’s sentiment at the end: “‘I don’t need very much now,’ said the boy, ‘just a quiet place to sit and rest.’”

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