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Possession

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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

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We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all of the lives we have lost.

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08 Jul 18 · Flag

Mary

I finished it. I agree that it would have been better with a bit more editing—especially the middle sections about White. I grew to care about her hawk Mabel, though, so I carried on until the end and…

08 Jul 18 · Flag

Seana Rasor

Okay, I’ll try picking it up again. I just got bogged down in the middle. It just didn’t seem to have the same beauty and emotion behind it that the beginning did. I felt like I was eating a bran muff…

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Ann Klein

I enjoyed both of your comments--and agree with them. I found it a bit of a slough through at times, but it was worth it by the end. I also got attached to Mabel and, actually to T.H. White by the end…

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