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The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl
4.2 AVERAGE
1.09k reviews for:
The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl
4.2 AVERAGE
emotional
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fast-paced
hopeful
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I bought her backyard journal before reading this. I haven't come to the bravery of writing something permanent in the book so I waited until I could get this book from the library for some inspiration as to what things I could write in it. I loved "The Comfort of Crows." I plan on purchasing a hard copy eventually & I think I'll try to read this book & "The Serviceberry" by Robin Kimmerer.
inspiring
fast-paced
A nature lover writes about her surroundings in an imaginative way, sort of a childlike awe.
Beautifully written book that was descriptive and really made you feel like you were there in her yard. (I listened to the audiobook and after reading the comments realized I need to get a hard copy for the artwork!)
There were some parts of the book that didn’t sit well with me, where I felt she was disproportionately ambivalent to the state of our world when she had previously been so passionate. (Accepting that our world is in the current state and you can’t be in a constant state of panic about it on one page, but unwilling to relocate a spider from inside her house on another).
I think I was mostly disappointed because her writing is so transcending, I felt that this let people off the hook when it really could have energized and empowered them.
Overall, it was a very thought provoking book, and I’m a native plant enthusiast, so I enjoyed reading her experiences and was grateful she shared her perspectives. Would recommend, and was a great book club pick!
There were some parts of the book that didn’t sit well with me, where I felt she was disproportionately ambivalent to the state of our world when she had previously been so passionate. (Accepting that our world is in the current state and you can’t be in a constant state of panic about it on one page, but unwilling to relocate a spider from inside her house on another).
I think I was mostly disappointed because her writing is so transcending, I felt that this let people off the hook when it really could have energized and empowered them.
Overall, it was a very thought provoking book, and I’m a native plant enthusiast, so I enjoyed reading her experiences and was grateful she shared her perspectives. Would recommend, and was a great book club pick!
2.5
This seems like the type of book I am supposed to love but actually really did not enjoy. It's shockingly sad? It's a lot less a reflection on nature and lot more about loss. Sometimes I had a hard time with how much the author seems to fuss over nature- it almost feels infantilizing the natural world? But the ways of the world care little for our emotions. Certainly they spark feelings in us and are important roadways to advocacy about nature, but ultimately to focus it upon human feelings is a narrow view and elevates us to more importance than we deserve. This toed that line that for me.
This seems like the type of book I am supposed to love but actually really did not enjoy. It's shockingly sad? It's a lot less a reflection on nature and lot more about loss. Sometimes I had a hard time with how much the author seems to fuss over nature- it almost feels infantilizing the natural world? But the ways of the world care little for our emotions. Certainly they spark feelings in us and are important roadways to advocacy about nature, but ultimately to focus it upon human feelings is a narrow view and elevates us to more importance than we deserve. This toed that line that for me.
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It was a little depressing about the state of the natural world but overall hopeful.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced