Hunter's Moon

One of the most wonderful, hearbreaking books I have ever read.

I have never read a book that so perfectly reflects both the animal and human sides of nature. The animals–well, act very realistically animal. Nothing in this book would feel out of place in a documentary (except that it is a lot more exciting than a documentary could ever be). And yet the author reveals the humanity in the animals with two emotions: love and fear.

Well, love and fear, to some, are very primal, very animal emotions. But I think that in this book, these emotions make the animals more human.

Of course, the animals also communicate and think rationally like humans, but I think that the author still does a really good job of showing the spirit of the animal world: the dangers and joys of the wild, the struggle to retain freedom and survive in a world dominated by humans.

But really, at its core, I don't think this is a story about foxes. It is a story about the nature of the world, which is a cycle of life and death, love and gried. We die, and the world goes on for some. The world changes and changes in ways we will never see, and generations that will never meet live and die. It is just a book about nature, which never changes, and the ways in which nature responds to nature, which also never changes.