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loicavivaz 's review for:
Extraordinary Birds
by Sandy Stark-McGinnis
Full of kindness and bird facts.
I was not surprised when I learned that the author wrote poetry before she wrote her first book. She is not afraid to abruptly juxtapose ideas without carefully walking the reader through why she is doing it, trusting the reader to make the connection on their own. This gave the narrator a strong voice. It felt exactly like my own brain sometimes, jumping to a new thought along a connection line that isn't consciously apparent at first but ultimately makes sense. The difference being that whenever December doesn't know what to say or think, she thinks of birds.
The book is short, yet encompasses huge ideas with full development; it reads swiftly and smoothly, yet takes your heart through a journey of many complex lumps and bumps. These are also marks of a skilled poet. I think it was very well done.
I was not surprised when I learned that the author wrote poetry before she wrote her first book. She is not afraid to abruptly juxtapose ideas without carefully walking the reader through why she is doing it, trusting the reader to make the connection on their own. This gave the narrator a strong voice. It felt exactly like my own brain sometimes, jumping to a new thought along a connection line that isn't consciously apparent at first but ultimately makes sense. The difference being that whenever December doesn't know what to say or think, she thinks of birds.
The book is short, yet encompasses huge ideas with full development; it reads swiftly and smoothly, yet takes your heart through a journey of many complex lumps and bumps. These are also marks of a skilled poet. I think it was very well done.