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Best read outdoors. While relaxing and letting your imagination run wild.

Darwin’s Finches. Guanay Cormorants. I am making my way through this book. It’s a lot.

Started on May 6 on a rare snow day. Chapter 1 is the meadow in winter and today feels blissfully like winter in Aurora, CO

I am not going to spend the time it takes to learn the baseline of the birds in my area and the actual individual birds. Am I?

Chapter 5 Darwin’s Finches is my favorite so far. The early chapters seemed heavy and plodding. This chapter skipped merrily along. The way Darwin did and did not actually focus on Finches as the proof of evolution is fascinating. I learned about adaptive radiation.

A mix of myth, science and history. A bit dry. Probably a good read for people seriously interested in birds. No humor or light hearted mess, which I am missing

First chapter on Ravens. What’s not to love?

Very interesting couplings. A wide range of circumstances. It’s got me thinking all the big relationship questions.

Does it surprise anyone that I’ve offered to help Denver Audubon Society facilitate a new book club about birds with intersections on art, mindfulness and literature? I hope they pick me. This is their first book?

So many questions. The premise has my head spinning.

Holy cow. This book involving a painting made me
Think of Tartt’s Goldfinch. And in chapter 42, this author refers to Tartt’s take on art as described in Goldfinch.

Switched to the audio book because I’ve been driving a lot. And tired at home. I am totally into the story now.

Hmm. The cadence of the writing makes me feel unsettled. It’s loopy. And snarky. And departs key phrases. And is it first person, third person? Present tense? I like to relax into reading. So far I feel kicked around a bit. Let’s see where it goes

Like Tartt’s Goldfinch, I will remind myself it’s a good idea to try to love a story about an ill-begot painting.

This might be a perfect book. The author is on an incredible adventure by rowing and hiking to the Arctic. She’s a nature and bird lover, and the special sauce is she talks about food a lot. I enjoy how she details what they eat along the way, how they back it, their nutritional needs, food mishaps and the like. Nature, birds and food….I can get on board with this.

Charming. Starting to wonder where it’s going.

Not gonna finish. I think this needs a straight read through instead of opening it every 2 or 3 days. Switching to my next book.

Just what I wanted. Woods, coming of age, mystery, Adirondacks. Skilled writing.

This book is cracking me up. It’s a catchy story while also being thought provoking.

I will read this book forever. There is no time when these essays won’t live in my head.

Simply remarkable. I want to read it slowly and let her images simmer.

Struggling. Very YA. I have a hard time with keeping up with different lands and lore and spells and such. Just how my old brain works. Thought there was more s()xy time too. She persists.

I already love it. His writing and wit reminds me
of Stand By Me, Owen Meany, and The Whistling Season. All favorites!!!