kriswc 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

3.0

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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Audiobook narrated by the author. Given that it’s a memoir, that was especially cool. But given that many of the chapters are historical asides or commentaries on another author/hawker who used hawking as an escape, the audiobook was a bit of a challenge. It’s not the kind of book I wanted to listen to speed up due to its contemplative nature, but I also didn’t care so much about TH White (author of Sword and the Stone )…. And yet…. I kept returning to the book, and learned a lot: about hawking and TH White and the grieving process.