2.5 flying stars. This book was my mother's pick for her book club. I don't attend her book club, but I sometime read the books she chooses so we can do some mother-daughter book bonding. This is fictionalized memoir of Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, starting with her courtship and ending right after th...
Again I am sucked into a Melanie Benjamin historical fiction book. This time the narrator is Anne Morrow Lindbergh the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Anne fell for Charles immediately and you might say Charles felt the same. He taught how to fly an airplane and they traveled to europe. They ...
This fiction is the story of Anne Lindbergh the wife of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. In her notes, the author clearly writes that while the basic timeline is accurate, her motivation was to tell Anne’s entire story and make her the heroine. Some parts are the factual skeleton of the story a...
This is the story of a marriage that just happens to also include the American hero of the 1927 to 1930s era. The book is written in the first person voice of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh's wife. Thus it reads as a memoir if one forgets that it's a novel. The author did a credible job o...
I saw this book advertised and (having read Alice I Have Been) thought I liked Melanie Benjamin as an author well enough. Unfortunately, this was just blecch.I'm not sure how true any of it was, but the whole thing just felt overdone and melodramatic. This is in the same tone as the recent flurry ...
This author’s dynamic prose brings the characters to life. In this audiobook, the reader is superb. She is sensitive to the narrative, doing all the voices well, expressing the content with just the right amount of emotion, like a stage performer, enabling the listener to feel the emotions of the ch...
I've loved Melanie Benjamin's other books, and I have always admired her ability to get into the mind of history's forgotten women. Alice I Have Been and The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb are among my favorite historical novels, but I just couldn't get into this one. Maybe it's because Charles L...
In her dedication, Melanie Benjamin stated that the most gratifying thing she can hear is that she inspired a reader to do further research. Well, she succeeded with me. I read A. Scott Berg’s biography on Lindbergh many years ago. Benjamin’s historical fiction reminded me how fascinating the Lin...
I fell in love with Melanie Benjamin's first novel, Alice I Have Been -- it was emotional and a bit raw, it made human this nearly mythological figure (Alice Liddell) -- and so I have been a slavish fangirl since. Which is why, as I'm no Lindbergh fan, I still went into this book with some exciteme...
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