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I'm about a third of the way into reading Circling the Sun and I'm almost finished with The Secret Place - perhaps 100 more pages. I'd recommend both books.
Circling the Sun is a fictional biography of Beryl Markham, who wrote West with the Night, a well-regarded book I haven't read. Perhaps I will now.
And, a friend gave me Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch. I read "The Prelude," and I hope I will find time to read the rest of the book. I'm reminded that Rebecca Mead already wrote about Eliot as the chronicler of resignation and acceptance when she wrote a piece for The New Yorker about the fact that a quote commonly ascribed to Eliot, about starting over, was never uttered by her.
I also started James R. Benn's The Blind Goddess. This is part of the Billy Benn historical murder mystery series. I didn't know what to expect, and this book is not the latest book in the series or the first one. But I felt that, while a reader who had read the other books might enjoy a whole host of associations that I could not, I really felt that it was very engaging from the first pages. I haven't gotten very far at all; perhaps as far as page 20.
I'm about a third of the way into reading Circling the Sun and I'm almost finished with The Secret Place - perhaps 100 more pages. I'd recommend both books.
Circling the Sun is a fictional biography of Beryl Markham, who wrote West with the Night, a well-regarded book I haven't read. Perhaps I will now.
And, a friend gave me Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch. I read "The Prelude," and I hope I will find time to read the rest of the book. I'm reminded that Rebecca Mead already wrote about Eliot as the chronicler of resignation and acceptance when she wrote a piece for The New Yorker about the fact that a quote commonly ascribed to Eliot, about starting over, was never uttered by her.
I also started James R. Benn's The Blind Goddess. This is part of the Billy Benn historical murder mystery series. I didn't know what to expect, and this book is not the latest book in the series or the first one. But I felt that, while a reader who had read the other books might enjoy a whole host of associations that I could not, I really felt that it was very engaging from the first pages. I haven't gotten very far at all; perhaps as far as page 20.
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