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H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

3.82 AVERAGE


This book was hard to get into initially, but once I was in it I was invested and mesmerised. I only took a star off for  the slow start

An informative and introspective book that is very well written.
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My favorite quote : "There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes the day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are."

Beautiful, sad, thoughtful...I enjoyed this one.
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Read for the Alveus Book Club for Jan 2025, a fascinating study on grief and love while exploring falconry both in the present and the past. I learned a lot and will be haunted (positively) by a great many of the lines. 

Some really beautiful descriptions and thoughts on grief and being human, but it just went on a bit too long for me. I did like how she tied in T.H. White's life and writing.
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It took me months to finish. Beautiful writing and the subject matter really moved me bc my brother recently passed away and this book is essentially about the author coming to terms with the death of her father. BUT, the type of book you can easily get tired of reading and have to put down and then forget about for a week.