Books by Esther Woolfson
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review 1: Thanks to Grrlbrarian over at the SMDB, I picked up this book from the library & am almost done. It's a quick read - being a memoir about living in a Scotland city with various feathered friends over the years - primarily Chicken, a rook, but also a talking magpie named Spike, an...
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review 1: I love this - every bit of it. I want to find myself walking down an Aberdeen street and see Esther helping a shabby dark bird, I want to help her take it home. This was a joy because it wasn't simply trying to educate us about corvids, although it did that too. She effectivel...
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review 1: This book is a treasure. Woolfson intermingles journal-type observations of nature in Aberdeen, Scotland with longer essays on species and musings about them. The book is all about cycles: weeks in seasons, in years, in calendars, in the Jewish calendar, and our lives within thos...