Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

18 reviews

teaandpetrichor's review against another edition

Stopped purely because I can't do hunting stuff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

hfleur's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and War

rcsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

It's part memoir, part about hawks and part a biography of T.H. White. The writing is beautifu,  and I liked how it dealt with grief. On the other hand, Hawking seems incredibly cruel to the animals and T.H. White sounds like a horrible person!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Animal death, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

sshabein's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

An outstandingly good memoir-mixed-with-history about hawks, yes, but also grief and loneliness. I had meant to read this for a long time, but it's probably for the best that I read it much further away from my own father's death. I could enjoy the book without it wrecking me, though there's something to be said for a book that wrecks you too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent

r_lumbrix's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Animal death, and Death of parent

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, and Death

Minor: Blood

amberinbookland's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Animal death

dwager's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective

I thought this book would be about hawks, and it was. But I did not realize it was a grief memoir. Very poignant, but it took me longer to read because it was maybe not the right time for me to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Death of parent

Minor: Cultural appropriation

jenlovesbooksandcoffee's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Torture, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: Antisemitism, Pedophilia, and Abandonment

_haggis_'s review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent