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The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl
4.2 AVERAGE
1.1k reviews for:
The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Billy Renkl
4.2 AVERAGE
Definitely a book I'll read over and over again. I'll shelve this one alongside BRAIDING SWEETGRASS and PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK.
This book was heartbreaking. I felt a steady pessimistic slant and a constant melancholic undertone and the book just made me too sad to continue. I felt defeated after each weekly reading and finally gave it away after reading the spring and half of the summer weeks. But two stars, instead of one for the lovely art and the idea of scheduled nature readings.
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I am a young person just starting their own family and worried about the future.
In this book it reminds me that as much as we have worries we can all do our small part to keep our wild friends alive.
The book is reflective and beautiful with gorgeous art and inspiring sentiments about getting older and empty nests. Margaret is a beautiful writing and her journal style of walking through a year is grounding and calming even though it is sad as nature can be.
In this book it reminds me that as much as we have worries we can all do our small part to keep our wild friends alive.
The book is reflective and beautiful with gorgeous art and inspiring sentiments about getting older and empty nests. Margaret is a beautiful writing and her journal style of walking through a year is grounding and calming even though it is sad as nature can be.
This collection of essays will have you slowing down your daily routine to observe the nature of your own backyard. The writing is poetic and peaceful. It’s a reminder that the Anthropocene is not the only part of our world and the seemingly subtle climate change effects are in fact anything but subtle.
Some of these essays blew me away, thinking and reflecting about my own relationship with my back yard. I recommend this for any casual gardener, birder, or someone looking to be reminded to connect with their local natural world.
Some of these essays blew me away, thinking and reflecting about my own relationship with my back yard. I recommend this for any casual gardener, birder, or someone looking to be reminded to connect with their local natural world.
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As a desert dweller without these experiences, I enjoyed hearing about the birds and beasts I have never seen. The author paints a picture of nature that is hard to look away from.
And although this book is about saving our planet and making better choices and respecting the lives of everything around us, I love the case the author makes. This wasn't incessant harping, this was, "look at this beauty," with a silent question of "don't you want to preserve this?"
And although this book is about saving our planet and making better choices and respecting the lives of everything around us, I love the case the author makes. This wasn't incessant harping, this was, "look at this beauty," with a silent question of "don't you want to preserve this?"
Very beautifully written, it just wasn’t for me, at least not right now. I tried and tried but just wasn’t drawn in to the story. However, the author is very clearly wonderful with words. I hope she writes something else that may appeal to me more.