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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Macdonald is a good writer, but self-indulgent. To be expected in someone coping with such grief, I guess. She writes beautiful, evocative, descriptive prose. I'm leading two discussions of the book; I will be interested to hear how people who are not as interested in birds as I am liked the book.
Kind of like. Obsessed? That this lady suffered an immense grief and went "hey I think I'm gonna get a bird whose only mission in life is to kill things and also has claws that could tear my arm to shreds" like how baller is that??? The text took me a while to get through because it can get pretty dense, and the braiding-in of TH White's story was pretty unexpected but still interesting. I wish Macdonald had written a little more about the history and politics surrounding hawking but then again this is mostly a memoir about grief, not a treatise on the environment.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
There were a lot of things I liked about this (the part about the Californian condor art show, every story about Mabel, the general writing style) but also a lot I could have done without (literally every single part about TH White, I understand why it was included but i do not care about a man)
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
I found myself reading through it rather quickly which was unexpected as it felt slow, but I sped through the pages.
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Not read a book like this before. Very moving and thoughtful. Throughout almost the entire book I wanted to give the author a hug, such was my emotional response to her amazing writing. The device of using another author's book on a similar subject was very smart I thought, and the way she welded the two narratives together was an intelligent device. Would recommended, hugely.