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Love and Ruin by Paula McLain

May 7, 2018

love

  It wasn’t bravery when you did what you had to do. Paula McLain’s novel, Circling the Sun, was one of my favorites of 2015, largely because she portrayed Beryl Markham so well as a woman ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, Ballantine, historical fiction, war, women, world war II

Circling the Sun: A Novel

August 10, 2015

circling the sun

I have a chart that traces my route over the Atlantic, Abingdon to New York, every inch of icy water I’ll pass over, but not the emptiness involved or the loneliness, or the fear. Those things are as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Ballantine, book clubs, historical fiction, South Africa, women

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