Margaret Renkl
Auteur van Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
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- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Andalusia, Alabama, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Opleiding
- Auburn University
University of South Carolina - Beroepen
- journalist
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Beautifully written series of reflections on birds the author encounters. I also loved the art which accompanied each essay.
I liked this a lot and plan to read the author's other books. I liked reading the stories about nature, and the stories about her family.
This will no doubt be the best book I read this year, and it is only February. Renkl's writing is gorgeous. Her perceptions of things make me jealous that I don't seem capable of perceiving things her way. I think I teared up on every page of this book. What she wrote about, the feeling she put into it, her sincerity, her loving, caring nature, all of that just swept me along. I read this book in one day. I thought it was magnificent.
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- Werken
- 3
- Leden
- 645
- Populariteit
- #39,135
- Waardering
- 4.4
- Besprekingen
- 30
- ISBNs
- 15
- Talen
- 1
It is for his photographs, paintings, drawings, and composition that the book will be kept, not for the words.
From the beginning - "Lord what fool this mortal be..." where I have no clue which metaphor she means -
then onto the constant, unremitting phases of death: Is there really no Love for Life without Death?
Deadwood, dead December, all the dead and dying animals, including her personal experiences
with killing them
(WHY the author needed to share ALL this? Does it heighten anyone's Joy? - or even help to avoid repeating her mistakes?
our Monarchs raised on the kitchen table survive well and depart our backyard with strong flying wings to head south),
endless reminders of stupidity of human exploitation, poisoning, and destruction -
yet with NO clues at to what Actions she will take!
More second guessing when she actually braves the forces of nature and helps an animal -
aren't we part of nature and so contribute our help?
Onto horrible images of dead rat snake, dying mealworms, dead car driver,
little mole hands in coyote scat, dead "baby chick" "story" -
feeding live crickets and "roll-poly" to toads with zero compassion for death of live creatures -
Gerbil "story" should make your day...along with the dead cottontails and the three birds...
Endless handwringing with no Links to organizations that will help animals and the environment,
not even an invitation to join her in writing to Joe to ask him to stop Daylight Savings after we earn the good Hour...… (meer)