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West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
I am eternally grateful for my trusted, go-to book sources, but there is something to be said for broadening your reading network.
At the recent Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club Reading Retreat we participated in a paperback book exchange. My new friend Raelene brought West with the Night and I snagged it based on the cover alone.
I would not have picked this book on my own. I am grateful I did because it is marvelous. I was captivated. I savored every word. Beryl Markham was something else- no-nonsense, feminine, ahead of her time. This memoir reads like fiction- snippets of her life told through impeccable writing set against the lush setting of Africa in the 1930's.
I could keep gushing, but I'll let Ernest Hemingway chime in. He said (about Markham) " ... can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book."
This is all to say that sometimes interacting with readers whose taste differs from yours can be such a wonderful thing. I encourage you to reach out to those readers that are unlike you every now and then. They may send your next favorite book your way.
At the recent Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club Reading Retreat we participated in a paperback book exchange. My new friend Raelene brought West with the Night and I snagged it based on the cover alone.
I would not have picked this book on my own. I am grateful I did because it is marvelous. I was captivated. I savored every word. Beryl Markham was something else- no-nonsense, feminine, ahead of her time. This memoir reads like fiction- snippets of her life told through impeccable writing set against the lush setting of Africa in the 1930's.
I could keep gushing, but I'll let Ernest Hemingway chime in. He said (about Markham) " ... can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book."
This is all to say that sometimes interacting with readers whose taste differs from yours can be such a wonderful thing. I encourage you to reach out to those readers that are unlike you every now and then. They may send your next favorite book your way.