![]() ![]() Projecting herself “in the hawk’s wild mind to tame her” tested the limits of Macdonald’s humanity and changed her life. White’s chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. ![]() An experienced falconer-Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood-she’d never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. When Helen Macdonald’s father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. Louis Post Dispatch, Star Tribune, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot One of Slate’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 YearsĪ Best Book of the Year: TIME, NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Miami Herald, St. One of the New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ruggiero is the subject of two possible prophecies. Ruggiero is raised since infancy by the wizard Atlante in Africa as a Saracen warrior (in Ariosto, Marfisa is Ruggiero's twin sister). ![]() When Ruggiero's father is betrayed and murdered, his mother escapes to the sea by boat, lands on the shores of Libya and dies after giving birth to twins. He is the son of a Christian knight (Ruggiero II of Reggio Calabria, a descendant of Astyanax, son of Hector) and a Saracen lady (Galaciella, daughter of Agolant, king of Africa). In Boiardo and Ariosto's works, he is supposed to be the ancestor of Boiardo and Ariosto's patrons, the Este family of Ferrara, and he plays a major role in the two poems. Ruggiero had originally appeared in the twelfth-century French epic Aspremont, reworked by Andrea da Barberino as the chivalric romance Aspramonte. Ruggiero (often translated Rogero in English) is a leading character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Marfisa (sister), Ruggiero II (father), Gallacia (mother), Atlantes (foster parent) Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ![]() ![]() ![]() I can see how this wouldn’t be everyone’s taste but for me I really clicked with it. It was really gripping and sad and gorgeously written. It was chaotic in a way but again something about it worked for me. We get the story told from when Blanca was alive and how exactly she died, her ghost self in the present, George’s point of view. The plot is a bit thin I should warn you but I love character driven stories so it didn’t bother me. I also liked that this was so character driven. Even the way that the narrative is set up and told is odd but it worked. ![]() Simple enough right? Wrong! There’s so much more in between that simple plot and it had me thinking about things which I didn’t expect to do but I really enjoyed it. She falls in love with a married mother of two named George. This book is about Blanca, who died 400 years ago in childbirth but her spirit still walks the earth. ![]() |