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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I won this book thru a Goodreads giveaway and I'm so glad I did. If this is really how Charles Lindbergh acted .... ich.
Interesting read. Didn't know a lot about the Lindberghs. Slightly depressing though.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was one of my grandmother's heroes and Gramma was present with me as I was reading. She was a bit of a distraction at times, because I know she would have had problems with some of the scenes and situations. Of course, Gramma was born in 1905, and was quite sheltered, even for her era. In spite of that, it was fun to engage with her in my mind and get a peek into the writing of the books she loved so well!
I loved this book. I am thinking about buying all the other books about Anne and Charles Lindbergh. If you love historical books this is the one for you. I don't want to tell you about it because it will spoil the book.
I wouldn't have this book had it not been for book club. It's just got my cup of tea and I found Charles and Anne to both be insufferable. I did find the history very interesting and though the book was very well written.
Sadly the image I had of Charles Lindbergh was tarnished by the reading of this book. Some of the facts don't seem to check out, so not sure how closely the author followed facts. It is historical fiction and maybe with this book the "fiction" part of the genre is more heavily emphasized. Overall a good read and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in that era.
Fascinating historical fiction about Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne.
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I was surprised to find myself sincerely choked up at the end of this book. It was a much more difficult (emotionally) read than I was prepared for, I think because I identified A LOT with many of the points the narrator.
This story is a fictional biography of a real person, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (wife of Charles Lindbergh) and it's clear that the author is doing the hard sell to make Anne "the good guy". I feel like she goes to extraordinary lengths to excuse some choices the real Anne made that were hard for me personally to swallow, but she does it in plausible ways.
Aside from those obvious pushes and some repetitive prose, I found this book to be very well written, easy to immerse myself in, and incredibly interesting. I want to add the real Anne's book, "Gift From the Sea", after reading this.
This story is a fictional biography of a real person, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (wife of Charles Lindbergh) and it's clear that the author is doing the hard sell to make Anne "the good guy". I feel like she goes to extraordinary lengths to excuse some choices the real Anne made that were hard for me personally to swallow, but she does it in plausible ways.
Aside from those obvious pushes and some repetitive prose, I found this book to be very well written, easy to immerse myself in, and incredibly interesting. I want to add the real Anne's book, "Gift From the Sea", after reading this.