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lmfm 's review for:
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
As a person who interested in literature and history and birding, I expected to love this book...but I just didn't. It is much more a case study in the author's depression than really about falconry or hawks. While the writing is very well done, I just couldn't really get interested in the long interludes about TS White (not my favorite author) or the author's difficulty in coming to grips with her father's death. I think if it had chosen to be one thing--a history of falconry, a memoir about the training of the hawk, a story about the author's father, his life, her grief, a study in how falconry appears in literature, an understanding of depression--I would have liked it better, but I felt like most of these were touched on in a relatively incomplete way.