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  • Birds Art Life

  • A Year of Observation
  • By: Kyo Maclear
  • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
  • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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Birds Art Life

By: Kyo Maclear
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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Publisher's summary

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life - a field guide to things small and significant.

When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady, the slow accumulations of knowledge, and the lulls that leave room for contemplation.

A distilled, crystal-like companion to H is for Hawk, Birds Art Life celebrates the particular madness of chasing after birds in the urban environment and explores what happens when the core lessons of birding are applied to other aspects of art and life. Moving with ease between the granular and the grand, peering into the inner landscape as much as the outer one, this is a deeply personal year-long inquiry into big themes: love, waiting, regrets, endings. If Birds Art Life was sprung from Maclear's sense of disconnection, her passions faltering under the strain of daily existence, this book is ultimately about the value of reconnection - and how the act of seeking engagement and beauty in small ways can lead us to discover our most satisfying and meaningful lives.

©2017 Kyo Maclear (P)2017 Simon & Schuster
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I got this book because the opening was used as an example in a memoir class I am taking. Now that I’ve finished the book I can’t even remember the beginning. After the journey boring and tedious journey through the book I’m not sure I want to remember. The author uses lists a lot. Reading a written book that might be ok but in an audio book it makes for a very difficult listen. She also simply stated conclusions without sharing what might have been a compelling or moving story that resulted in the conclusion. There was so little emotion expressed in this book that I wondered why she wrote it. The performance was much better than the book deserved.

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