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Some really beautiful turns of phrase, thoughts on grief, and a hecking lot of detail about the specifics of hawks. Really good writing, just not for me.
I loved the parts about being a falconer and training the goshawk, but I could've done with a little less T.H. White. Overall an enjoyable read.
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Not for me. I had to force myself to finish it.
This book was beautifully written and haunting. I loved the way she interwove her own story with that of the author T.H. White, who wrote The Goshawk as well as an Arthurian series, The Once and Future King. And the book is about history, nature, personal loss, the loss of land and habitats. My description can't do it justice, really. It is at once a personal book about the loss of her father, but it is also a book about the history of the world and everything in it.
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I feel like I've been reading this forever (and since it looks like I started it seven months ago, I have been). I really wanted it to be amazing but it just didn't hold my interest. Perhaps it would have been better for me in print versus audio.
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Finished. Immediately wanted to reread. Plan to proselytize hard for it.
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