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Colin Meloy's avatar

Ha! Hey everyone, turns out I had comments turned off. I was wondering why everyone was keeping their reading lists so close to their chests. Feel free to sound off in the comments below!

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Carole's avatar

Have you read H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald? Lovely book about the author and a new goshawk she trains as part of grieving after her father’s death. But what connects to your post is that interweaved into the book is a biography of TH White and in particular his attempts at training hawks and generally living a certain kind of medieval English countryside life that he aspired to. It’s a great book - really evocative descriptions of East Anglian landscapes too. I bought The Sword in the Stone for my boys as a result of this book - I think I read it when young but not sure. It’s sitting on their shelf unread so I think it should be our next read aloud book whilst they still let me (they are 10 and 8)!

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