Reviews tagging 'Racism'

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

2 reviews

emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

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slow-paced

4.0

It's a beautiful book, largely about the author's grief around loosing her father, closely followed by a retelling of the biography of a horrible, flawed man and his hawk from the past. The passages about her hawk are so real you feel she's preening her feathers in front of you but these are third to the aforementioned.

Perhaps I'd built this book up too much in my head. After all, it's on a subject I find so interesting and I've had it on my shelf a good four years before it was read. It was slow and I found myself disappointed that the book neatly finished, only to start yet ANOTHER chapter. I wouldn't read it again.

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jenlovesbooksandcoffee's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0


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