"H Is For Hawk," Wednesday, April 15th in Point Reyes Station

At midnight tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15th, the time for procrastinating on paying Uncle Sam last year's taxes ends.

But at 7:00 pm (before or after you begrudging send off your loot to the IRS), you can attend a special "bird book" event at the Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station.

Here's what the program, sponsored by Point Reyes Books, is all about:

"Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk is among the most anticipated works of nonfiction this spring. Winner of the 2014 Costa Book of the Year and the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, it is the remarkable story of one woman’s resolve to raise and train the most bloodthirsty of birds: the goshawk.

"But it’s also a heart-wrenching account of Macdonald’s grief at the sudden death of her father; a literary meditation on The Sword and the Stone author T.H.White—a writer who also sought to fill a void through training a goshawk; a gripping piece of nature writing that “reads like a thriller” (The Guardian) and transports both writer and reader to the edge of humanity and back."

Click here to read more about the author and tomorrow night's reading.