Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
That cover. Blech. But, I'm committed to my beloved bookgroup so I powered through my distaste for the pastel-washed art and the overuse of curlicues. And I'm pleased that I did. The thing I wasn't expecting was that the pages inside this cover housed the life of one bad ass bitch. The first female horse trainer in Africa. The first woman to fly across the Atlantic by herself. But unlike her unimaginable firsts, she was also completely relatable. Beryl Markham was a deeply
