jbingb 's review for:

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

3.0

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12: West With the Night by Beryl Markham...as “assigned” by book club. I likely would not have picked it up on my own, and I’m not sorry that I read it, but it did not push most of my “This was a great book because...” buttons. The last fifty pages were truly the best, however. This is the memoir of a woman who lived in Africa most of her life, who was made to be very independent and soloed in life and as a pilot at a young age and in a much earlier time ...and yet none of it is presented as very remarkable nor presented very remarkably, really. I needed more description to feel I’d truly visited Africa...or more explanation or background supporting how, more specifically, she came to flying...something to make it more richly and valuably one of those pieces to make me feel like at least that was complete. It end up being not all that “deep” of an experience as such a life seemed to have produced.