Today's Featured Book:
The Book of Birds:
A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Genre: Nonfiction
Published: June 9, 2026
Page Count: 384 pages
Summary:
The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of nearly fifty once-common species: avocet to yellowhammer, kestrel to kingfisher, skylark to nightingale. In lyrical and incantatory essays, Macfarlane describes each bird’s habits and habitats, their patterns of flight and patterns of song, how they hunt or fish or scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths that attend them, the threats that shadow them―and how their lives intersect with our own. On every page we encounter Morris’s exhilarating artwork, painted from life in watercolor and gold leaf, and animated with an extraordinary attention to detail. The Book of Birds is a love letter to the thrilling variety and mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the rapid depletion of our skies.
A great thinning of the skies is under way. There are three billion fewer birds in North America than half a century ago. Five hundred million fewer in Europe. Seventy-three million fewer in Britain. Worldwide, almost 50 per cent of bird species are in decline. That which was once called 'common' is becoming rare: the 'common eider' is now in the same global conservation category as the jaguar. Dawns and springs are quieter; the air, emptier. An ancient avian orchestra is falling silent. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost.
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The penalty for drawing a blade within the precincts of the royal court is amputation of the offending hand.
Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel (Wolf Hall Series Book 2) (p. 56). Kindle Edition.
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I've decided to read all three volumes of the Wolf Hall series by Hilary Mantel before watching the final part of the series on PBS.
It's comforting to watching the extreme political and religious devilry of the time of Henry VIII in light of the extreme political and religious devilry of our own times here in America.
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