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I loved this. Out of Africa is one of my favorite books and honestly I love any book about Africa so it's not a big surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed this. A fictionalized account of Beryl Markham's life, this book takes you from her childhood in Kenya to adulthood as she navigates a world that was not kind to free spirited women. A horse trainer, aviatrix and boundary breaker it is not hard to feel inspired by Beryl. Highly recommended.
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I had to read this title for the book club I run at my library. I got it out on audiobook to make the process of reading it less forced, but I was disappointed nonetheless.
This story is one that a favorite writing instructor would have scrawled ODTAA at the top of: One Damn Thing After Another. McLaine manages to take an all together extraordinary and enigmatic character from history-- Beryl Markham, who grew up wild as a colony brat in Kenya, and became the first woman horse trainer and the fi ...more
This story is one that a favorite writing instructor would have scrawled ODTAA at the top of: One Damn Thing After Another. McLaine manages to take an all together extraordinary and enigmatic character from history-- Beryl Markham, who grew up wild as a colony brat in Kenya, and became the first woman horse trainer and the fi ...more
Good summer read. Picturesque landscapes, romance, adventure. All the characters are a bit flat.
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Lynne
marked it as to-read-historical-fiction
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