I have gotten a little past the midway point of Richard Powers’ latest novel The Overstory, but I don’t think I am going to finish it.
I was really liking the book when I first started it, but it has been dragging for the last 100-150 pages, and I am finding it to be increasingly preachy and didactic. I feel like it is a case of a technically gifted author telling a story that is not all that interesting
The book is also not helped by yet another middle-aged male author having a young, attractive female character fall for his middle-aged male protagonist. I think I need to stick with the rule I have adopted for myself over the last year of only reading novels written by women.