In case you DO care, I recommend Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges.
Also, go get in the woods sometime and sit down and look around and listen for a bit. THEY'RE NOT THAT BAD. And you might see a goshawk. I did the first time I went in the woods just to look for birds. Kinda peaked early, I'm afraid.
You know what? At some point I told someone that Hemingway's A Moveable Feast was my favorite book. But I haven't read it for at least a decade. What do you say we give it a read and see if it holds up? It's pretty short. Recently I reread The Great Gatsby for the first time since high school, and it was so good I almost want to see Baz Luhrmann destroy it. Will Hemingway's love letter to post-war Paris do the same?