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BennettBookworm
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🦎Iambic Pentameter: relates to Shakespeare - Family Family, Laurie Frankel
🦎Grammatica: multiple authors - True Love Experiment, Christina Lauren
🦎Dobby: prominent animal character - The Eyes & the Impossible, Dave Eggers
🦎Expecto Patronum: happily ever after - With Love, from Cold World, Alicia Thompson
🦎Greenhouse: character with plant name - Slip, Marika McCoola & Aatmaja Pandya
🦎Polyjuice Potion: impersonator - The Appeal, Janice Hallett

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BookWrym
H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald
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Beautifully written but brutal.

This is a story about grief, coping with loss and finding a reason to go on. It is also a book about TH White and his novel The Goshawk where his ineptitude with nature is revealed and where as usual humans are more brutal than natures killers. Then again it is a book about building a relationship with nature and understanding the darkness and brutal that inhabit the hunt.

Falconry is not for the faint hearted.

batsy Nice review. Agree with your assessment... Beautiful and brutal. 2d
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BennettBookworm
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If this isn‘t the most gorgeous book inside and out that I‘ve ever read, I don‘t know WHAT is! Full of heart and humor, this story told from a dog‘s perspective is one that will stay with you forever. As a teacher, I instinctively imagined how I would read this aloud to a group of kids, because it would be so perfect for any mid-upper elementary classroom. A perfect blend of realistic and fantastical.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it 😍 2d
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readswellwithothers
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As I listened to this beautiful book of linked essays this week, construction started in earnest to build two homes on a tiny lot of land behind my home. What was wild and untamed and unruly is now shredded and torn and barren. Even as I write this, the rock-splitting equipment forges ahead. The timing of the book in my life is impeccable, and the book itself is a testament to the straight line from heart to nature.So good! I loved every word.♥️🌳

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LibraryCin
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These are so good with so much information. I‘ll never remember even half of it probably, but it‘s done so well, and the (colour) illustrations are beautiful. Even simple things I probably should have known like what characteristics distinguish a raptor. It was interesting to see the close-up illustrations of the birds, like their beaks and talons to distinguish, as I am never likely to see that in person! I am enjoying this entire series so much.

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TieDyeDude
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Bird feeders were cleaned out this weekend and we have been mobbed lately with chickadees and redpolls, and an occasional nuthatch. #WhatsNewWednesday #LitsyLove

It‘s time to share!
What‘s new?
A change, something you‘re looking forward to, something you need some love & support for as you go through it, etc.

Use the #WhatsNewWednesday hashtag and please tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life

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Read4life Wow! That‘s fantastic. Thanks for sharing, Andrew. 🤓 5d
CoffeeNBooks I love this! I just cleaned out my bird feeders over the weekend, also. I had a lovely cardinal couple show up yesterday. 5d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love to sit outside and listen to the birds sing 😊 🐦 5d
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Tamra
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Laugh out loud moment when Renkl mistakes a vacuum cleaner clog for a long sought after owl pellet.

A “Hoover pellet.” 🤣🤣

jlhammar That part cracked me up 😆 Really enjoying reading a section/essay each week. 1w
Tamra @jlhammar I‘m going to read it the same way - perfect! I have had some catching up to do though. (edited) 1w
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AvidReader25
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This 2024 Newbery-award-winner tells the story of a dog who is friends with bison, a seagull, and other creatures in an island park. I‘ve recently read two others from the POV of an animal (Pax and Open Throat), but I loved how this one leaned heavy on a buddy comedy vibe, working in a heist and a deep, abiding friendship between the animals. I liked it much more than I thought I would and the audio, performed by Ethan Hawk) was such fun.

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Erynecki
The Sun Is a Compass: A Memoir | Caroline Van Hemert
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The only hikes I ever do are day hikes which end with a hot shower, but I love compelling stories of outback adventures, and this book did not disappoint. Traveling 4,000 miles on foot, by canoe, on skis, and in a raft… the author and her husband travel across the Pacific coast and Arctic lands and sea. It‘s a beautiful story of stunning vistas, natural dangers, birds, bears, caribou, and her experience of sharing the journey with her husband.

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jenniferw88
H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald
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