{"id":9349,"date":"2015-11-27T03:06:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2015-11-27T03:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:06:48","slug":"coopers-book-report-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=9349","title":{"rendered":"Cooper&#8217;s Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s book is <em>H is for Hawk<\/em>, by Helen Macdonald. <a href=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9351\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11-736x1024.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>This award winning book is the story of a woman coming to terms with grief after her father suddenly dies. When Helen McDonald learns of her father&#8217;s passing, she purchases a goshawk. As time goes on she retreats further from the human world by immersing herself in the training of her hawk, Mabel.<\/p>\n<p>The author alternates the telling of her missteps and successes with Mabel with an account of author T.H. White&#8217;s experiences training his hawk, Gos. Though Mcdonald descends into isolation and heavy depression, her time with Mabel eventually helps her to come to terms with her sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper enjoyed this novel. She found the way T.H. White treated his hawk to be disturbing, though. She liked that falconry has its own terminology (bloom, rouse, mute [poop!]). She\u00a0 learned quite a bit about falconry and the goshawk &#8211; a bird almost as fierce as a budgie. Her favorite parts of the book, though, were the descriptions of Mabel flying free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s book is H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald. This award winning book is the story of a woman coming to terms with grief after her father suddenly dies. When Helen McDonald learns of her father&#8217;s passing, she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=9349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7,2289,179,1974,1976,1975,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}