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The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl
4.2 AVERAGE
1.14k reviews for:
The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl
4.2 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
medium-paced
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
informative
slow-paced
I like it but I don’t think it’s my type of genre. you’ll like this if you like nature and/or poetry
I started this book on January 1st and dipped into it throughout the year, relishing Margaret Renkl’s essays and praise songs as I tried in my own backyard to emulate the attention she models. Her grief at all the ways humans harm the environment (climate change, habitat destruction, pollution) measures her love for the natural world, and she observes herself as closely as her garden, wary of anthropomorphizing creatures or intervening in the wild world even though both can be hard to resist. Adding to the pleasure of Renk’s nature writing are the illustrations by her brother. This is definitely a book to keep and re-read.
4.5 - An adult storybook. Depicts the beauty and grief in nature around us.
I savored this book slowly, a chapter or two before bed. I appreciated how each chapter had its own illustration.
Keeping this as a reference, to remember to keep my leaves piled so critters can shelter there in winter, to plant natives and milkweed for the monarchs, to “remember the crows who tell us we belong to one another and to them.”
I savored this book slowly, a chapter or two before bed. I appreciated how each chapter had its own illustration.
Keeping this as a reference, to remember to keep my leaves piled so critters can shelter there in winter, to plant natives and milkweed for the monarchs, to “remember the crows who tell us we belong to one another and to them.”
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
1.5 out of 5
The illustrations are fantastic, the essays themselves range from being okay to boring to annoying, with a few exceptions. I liked the Winter section the best.
The illustrations are fantastic, the essays themselves range from being okay to boring to annoying, with a few exceptions. I liked the Winter section the best.