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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
Didn't actually finish. I adored learning about Beryl Markham in Paula McLain's book Circling the Sun. I just didn't enjoy the author's description of her own life in this autobiography. She was an amazing woman, but not a writer. Moving on to something else....
A meandering story of lion fights, heart-racing horse training, impossible flights, and Africa. So beautiful recalled that I forgot at many times I was reading nonfiction. (Shout out to the fact that as a woman in the early 20th century, Markham not once includes details of romance.)
Not the aviation or travel book I thought it would be but much more. It’s a memoir about childhood, memory, and time. Beautiful prose. At times it feels like you are reading Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn but with a tomboy carousing on the Serengeti. Markham’s attachment to nature through horses, her love of Africa and its people, and insights into flying and life are worth reading. Wish I’d read this years ago when I first became aware of it. It was required reading for the school district which my library serviced.
slow-paced
Very slow and wordy. Hard to follow the timeline. More colonialism view
It was an interesting book. I t is about a woman who did the first solo flight (opposite direction from Amelia Earhart). Very interesting book about life in Africa. One thing that bothered me...it is supposedly an autobiography. But at the end of the book you know no more about her than you did when you started. I had to look her up online.
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Fascinating and engaging little autobiography of an early female aviator I'd never-heard-of-but-should-have (after all those grade school projects about the history of aviation).
**** 1/2 actually. I am fighting against being too soft with the 5 star ratings!!
informative
medium-paced