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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
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reflective
sad
medium-paced
medium-paced
This book has a lot going on ... Yet not a lot actually happens. Beautiful descriptions, reminiscent of Annie Dillard, which is high praise. Nonetheless I had a hard time getting through it for book club.
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I first tried to read this book when it came out. It was getting lots of critical acclaim, and I love a good memoir. However, I didn’t finish it then. It just didn’t grab me. Lately I’ve gotten more interested in hawks and I decided to read it again. She writes beautifully and the memoir portions were compelling, but she spends about half the book exploring the life and the writing of T.H. White, and I just couldn’t relate much to those sections.
Beautiful and stark. Loved it for the raw descriptions of nature life n death, but struggled a bit with the long passages about her falconry inspo White.
This is a memoir about a woman who is dealing with the sudden loss of her father by training a hawk. The writing is dense and a bit emotionally distant. Other issues I had were that the book included almost too much detail about training the hawk and the comparisons to T.H. White didn't always work for me. Nevertheless, I would recommend it--especially if you have an interest in birds or nature writing.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death