La mia famiglia e altri volatili

This review makes me uncomfortable so let’s off with the bandage. In the fall, I saw a “Lost Cat” poster tacked up right outside my house, and I knew the owner of this cat: a little boy whose father passed away from cancer about a year ago. The boy’s father couldn’t search for this cat so I took it u Leggi tutto

I find it strange that, when so much of Birdgirl is concerned with how to include people outside the dominant ‘white male’ domain of both extreme bird-watching and environmentalism, that the blurb makes no mention of Mya-Rose’s Bangladeshi heritage, because she certainly does! With ‘diversity’ being Leggi tutto

An incredibly inspiring and honest memoir from Muslim environmental activist and avid birder, Mya-Rose Craig. In her book Mya shares about how she grew up birding with her family, traveling all across the globe searching for rare birds as well as how difficult it was having a bipolar mother with ser Leggi tutto

3.5 Stars When I was given the opportunity to read this book I had great expectations. The book's subject was fascinating, but I found the narrative, not to my taste in some places. At times, it was written as more of a list than descriptive prose. I also hope the published book has photos of the bir Leggi tutto

Absolutely breathtaking. I read this book in a day. I found it incredibly engaging, powerful, empowering and beautiful. A story of birds, nature, adversity, racial inequality and climate catastrophe, it is also a story of hope and love; the love of a family enduring crisis as they each deal with the Leggi tutto

This is a beautifully written memoir about a girls love of birds and her family and how their shared passion for birds and twitching brings them together. Since starting it I have found myself stopping and looking up to the skies more and love Maya’s words in the epilogue which are lessons for nudgi Leggi tutto

I liked her activism talk in the last chapter but honestly I couldn’t get into this book, it just didn’t resonate with me or really impress me as much as other reviews seem to suggest. As someone who loves being in nature I disappointingly found this book incredibly unrelatable mostly due to the privi Leggi tutto

less about birding, or in UK parlance "twitching" and more about the activity as a way to bring a messy family together even during huge upheaval and struggle, along with a young person's concerns about their future in this warming planet. The writing was excellent and kept me interested in this hype Leggi tutto

No denying she is a remarkable young woman, and I did enjoy her points on climate activism and indigenous justice, but the book itself lacked any real significant depth for me. She does something I think young people are prone to do—bring up a very complex problem but then explain it away with “I go Leggi tutto

This reads more like journal entries than a memoir so each birding trip sounds a lot like the previous one with only the place names and bird species that change. But Ms Craig is already doing great things out there, and I look forward to seeing what else she can do.