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H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk
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Start date
April 30, 2016
Finish date
June 15, 2016
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Let’s start the summer on the right foot with a brisk walk and an animated talk about the award-winning m…more

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Brenda
Jul 16, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: popular, non-fiction
Having lost a parent at a young(ish) age I often take issue with the way authors portray the death of parents. They seem to either idealize or vilify the deceased, but Macdonald doesn't spend much time lamenting, instead she focuses all her pain and energy on her hawk. Slowly she works out her internal struggles and depression by training the bird, ultimately letting it fly freely. I know nothing of birds, hawking or falconry, yet found this book totally relatable. ...more
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ElizaLu
Apr 22, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: nf-biography-memoir, setting, non-fiction, cover-obsession, read-in-2015
A disarmingly lovely book filled with exquisite moments of truth and beauty. Even just the vocabulary of falconry and nature is fascinating, fresh, and gorgeous.

The only reason it's not getting 5 stars is because I couldn't quite shake the thesis-y feeling of the bits of analysis of White's book, The Goshawk. ...more
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Emily Whitmore
Feb 15, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Dec 30, 2014 marked it as to-read
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