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stacyverb 's review for:
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
I would never say this is a bad book, or tell anyone not to read it. There is some beautiful, deeply felt prose here. But I just don't think I'm the right reader to fully appreciate the book as a whole. The concept of "hawking" makes no sense to me (take a wild animal, tame it, and then teach it how to hunt--something that should come naturally to it? what??), and I didn't care one bit about the T.H. White sections (honestly, skimming/skipping those sections was the only way I could finish this).