Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Mar. 16th
H is for Hawk
By Helen MacDonald
Kindle/iBooks/Kobo
Four Stars
In grieving for her father Helen turns to Falconry to process her feelings. Training a Goshawk to fly and kill may seem an odd choice, but the draw is an emotional complexity and discipline. Her hawk stories are fascinating, her grief and historic obsessions less so, but both tap insightfully into the way animal relationships deliver both affection and loss.
WebMD Allergy
iPhone/iPad
Free
Using your GPS location and a list of your personal sensitives WebMD offers both weather and allergy forecasts for outdoor irritants like pollen and indoor triggers like food or latex.
The Photo Cookbook – Tapas
iPhone/iPad
$4.59
A collection of tasty bites from Spain, this visual step-by-step prep and cooking guide includes beef skewers, stuffed tomatoes, ham croquettes, and tortilla nibbles perfect for get-togethers on sunny days.
Nat Geo View
iPhone
Free
This pocket selection of National Geographic wonders is filled every day with wide-eyed photographs, curiosity-driven articles, and remarkable video stories. It’s a beautiful, uncomplicated source of free inspiration.
Ori And The Blind Forest
Xbox One/PC
Rating: Everyone
Three 1/2 Stars
As a forest spirit exploring darkly atmospheric caverns, Ori takes a long time to master the basics. It will be hours of precision-timed puzzles before you can double-jump, for example, and the idea is to really challenge you with something you’d normally take for granted. There’s no major powers here, the reward for your patience is simply the game’s faerie tale charm and bioluminescent mystique. The death traps and spiders and magic gates aren’t new, just honed for a challenge, and so missing a sense of playfulness you might expect.
