Memoirs can be great or awful. Sometimes a memoir is nothing more than an author’s musings about some specific event in his or her life, with little to offer the reader beyond the author’s singular self-absorbed experience. Too much “me” and very little “why should I care?” That said, I have just read the second
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H Is For Hawk – by Helen Macdonald
By Patty Shlonsky on
Posted in Memoir, Nonfiction
I know I said I was a fiction fanatic, but when I read good nonfiction I just want to tell the world about it. So let me tell you about “H Is For Hawk”.
Helen Macdonald’s “H Is For Hawk” is a beautifully written and thoughtful book that includes patience as one of its many …