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The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl

4.2 AVERAGE

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5.0

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DID NOT FINISH: 18%

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I didn’t like the narrator’s style and cadence- it’s a personal thing.
I plan to read it soon.

mamakath's review against another edition

5.0

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The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl is the second of her books I have read, because I decided I HAD to read this one after loving Late Migrations. Although one is about people and one is about nature, I found them very similar, to my absolute delight. Renkl is a master of what I like to refer to as "lyrical prose," which seems to float back and forth between prose and poetry, even if it is written in paragraph form.
The Comfort of Crows tells the good and the bad, the lovely and the dangerous, of natural and author-included occurrences in her little part of the world in Tennessee and surrounds. And, she manages to make even the horrific

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she accidentally crushes the last living bluebird fledgling of a nest in a wild attempt to save it from a snake

sound almost meditative through her love of the natural world.

Highly recommended escapism.

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