Can someone suggest a good book to read?

[demwing]

42. Fiction or Non?

For fiction I just read Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: <http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/anansi-boys-neil-gaiman/1100551311?ean=9780060515188> which is a modern retelling of the myth of Anansi, the African trickster god. It's a playfully dark story of two brothers who are separated in youth and reunited as adults, and discover that their recently deceased father was the god Anansi, and may not actually be dead. Trickster behavior ensues...

For non-fiction try The Wild Trees by Richard Preston: <http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wild-trees-richard-preston/1100623496> which is about a small group of researchers who hike the forests of the pacific North West in search of previously undiscovered giant redwoods. In the process they learn that the redwood canopy supports an isolated eco-system complete with:

"hanging gardens of ferns, to caves carved into the trees by forest fires. Layers of soil sitting on the limbs — layers that can be up to a meter deep, filled with organisms and then small trees growing on the branches of redwood trees. Trees of many different species — these are bonsai of the canopy".