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“Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review

10,000 Birds

And what an attractive cover it has, filled with blackbirds against a blue and purple sky. There’s something off-putting about her prose – it’s immensely earnest, precious, and by turns giddy and despairing (“If there is a sadness as big as the galaxy, I feel it now”), so that neither of those latter two emotions is very believable.

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