Reviews

Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh

mmc6661's review against another edition

3.0

Poetic writing but consist of pages of letters making up her life. Just not my kind of read.

rena_roadtoenlightment's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

First anthology I've read and I went out and bought the physical book so I can annotate in a more physical sense.  The book makes me feel so intimately connected to someone whom I know nothing before. In a way, it also mystified her life more and makes me want to read all of her writing at some point. AML's writing is so lyrical and poetic. Her words are descriptive yet saturated with emotion that I took long breaks from reading due to anguish over her pain and sorrow. Her life is privileged but her humility and vulnerability made her so agreeable and accessible. Her insight and gentleness are profound and transcends through her words.

cook_memorial_public_library's review against another edition

5.0

A 2013 staff nonfiction favorite recommended by Erick, who says it is "a journey through the eyes of a remarkable woman, filled with insight and much love.''

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leighannsherwin's review against another edition

5.0

I was so happy when Anne's children decided to publish this book. It always felt like an unfinished autobiography with the diaries and letters ending in 1944 when she was just 38 years old. There was still a lot of life to live, the birth of her last child, losing her husband to cancer, her alleged affair, the loss of a grandson and one of her daughters to cancer not to mention so many historical events and changes. Of course the most pressing question is did she know about her husband's secret life? The book opens with Anne pregnant with her seventh child and considering abortion which was illegal then. She has a miscarriage alone and we begin to see why she probably had an affair. For the first part of the book she is the usual I can't wait to see my husband again, but slowly she grows stronger and more independent. Her children and their families are very important to her and her love for them shines through. She did live many great moments in history witnessing the Apollo 8 launch, meeting the Kennedys and mourning the death of a president with the rest of the country. Her husband was ahead of his time in terms of conservation and saving the environment, but the irony of him saying the world was overpopulated when he produced about fourteen children with four different women was not lost on me either. The book ends with her writing a letter to daughter Reeve on the anniversary off the death of her son, a full circle momentum as Anne herself lost a son when he was the same age and it was a sweet touching note of shared pain between mother and daughter. As for the question of did she know, she never really let's on about it and deeply mourned her husband. In my opinion I think she did know about it, but the Lindbergh family is private and I'm sure if Anne wrote about it it was either destroyed or not included in the published book. Still I'm glad this book was published and feel that it brought her story full circle and made it more complete.