I appreciated the good writing, gaining insight into the life of a scientist, and the insider information about trees....however at 50% I skipped to the last chapter. The scientific jargon and the procedures of getting grants/funding and setting up labs are not engaging me. For scientists I think this would be a great read. I just can't ....I'm done. Because I read 50% and skipped to the ending I'm considering this DNF. I did appreciate and relate to her observations of the Scandinavian culture! (Certainly true in my childhood home!).....
"We had long since established the habit of not speaking as we walked the two miles home; silent togetherness is what Scandinavian families do naturally, and it may be what they do best.

The vast emotional distances between the individual members of a Scandinavian family are forged early and reinforced daily. Can you imagine growing up in a culture where you can never ask anyone anything about themselves? Where “How are you?” is considered a personal question that one is not obligated to answer? Where you are trained to always wait for others to first mention what is troubling them, even as you are trained to never mention what is troubling you? It must be a survival skill left over from the old Viking days."