I didn’t so much read this novel about early aviator Beryl Markham as feel it, being swept up into the wild, diverse world of colonial Africa every time I opened the book. Normally I much prefer biography to any fictionalized version of a real person’s life, especially someone like Markham who’s pen...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Random House for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.McLain's latest work of historical fiction spans the life of Beryl Markham, a British-born Kenyan aviator, horse trainer, and in her later years, author. She was one of the first bush pilots, and was the fi...
I really should have DNF'd this book. Putting aside my personal feelings and value judgments I have for Ernest Hemingway, the tone didn't come across as I would have expected. I really knew nothing of his (first) wife, but I would have expected EH to come across more broody and a mean drunk. Instead...
I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.This book was pretty good, but it just didn't grab me the way that The Paris Wife did. I think it's because the story starts out with Beryl leaving for her record breaking trans-Atlantic flight, then skips back to te...
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.After finishing this book, I immediately went to the Google to get some more information about Beryl Markham. Honestly, the information I found via Wikipedia and various other websites was more interesting than this novel...
This is a beautifully written novel about the life of Beryl Markham. What a fascinating person she was! She was a famous aviator (the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east and west and one of the first bush pilots), racehorse trainer (the first licensed female horse trainer in Keny...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. Additionally, I have not read the Paris Wife, though I am now considering it (and since I am not a Hemingway fan that’s saying something). In her afterword to this novel, Paula McLain notes that Beryl Markman is not as well known as she should be, no...
This book took me longer to read than I wanted it to. While I enjoyed it while reading it, the story dragged on with day to day minutiae that it often became hard to tell time lines. In fact, so much was told of the day to day that I was surprised to find out in the end that they'd only been mar...
Maybe I should have read more reviews or at least the Wikipedia entry for Ernest Hemingway before reading this. I admit that I knew little about him going into this, but I suppose that made it suspenseful at least, whereas I would have known that I'd find this story disturbing if I'd known what was ...
I've always thought to live a life like Ernest Hemingway would be a dream. Living a life full of adventure with a carefree attitude, writing a book about it and having it published would be quite like heaven. In A Paris Wife, a fictional account of Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson we learn ...
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