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Katharine Lee McEwan
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Paula McLain
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS
“Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing.”—Ann Patchett, Country Living
This powerful novel transports listeners to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and trusts dissolves, headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships, then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory, Beryl will risk everything to have Denys’s love, but it’s ultimately her own heart she must conquer to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“Paula McLain cements herself as the writer of historical fictional memoir with Circling the Sun, giving vivid voice to Beryl Markham, a singular, extraordinary woman. In McLain’s confident hands, Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to soar.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time
“Richly textured . . . Markham’s life is the stuff of legend. . . . McLain has created a voice that is lush and intricate to evoke a character who is enviably brave and independent.”—NPR
“Bold, absorbing fiction.”—New York Daily News
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Marie Sklodowska, 25, is studying science at the Sorbonne—one of the only universities in the world that has begun to admit women. A thousand miles from her native Poland, with no money and the odds stacked against any woman daring to pursue a career in such a rigorous field, Marie throws herself into her studies. She’s certain that to succeed in a man’s world, she will have to go it alone.
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- De Kingsley en 03-01-19
De: Paula McLain
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Song of a Captive Bird
- A Novel
- De: Jasmin Darznik
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel - gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry takes flight - and tradition seeks to clip her wings.
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I really wanted to love this book, but...
- De Susan en 06-25-18
De: Jasmin Darznik
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West with the Night
- De: Beryl Markham
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.
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I Read this wonderful book
- De Sunspot en 06-09-05
De: Beryl Markham
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Her Last Words
- De: Kim Kelly
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It’s 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she’s an old-fashioned girl. She longs only to tell the stories written on her heart. While her best friends, Penny and Jane, and her darling boyfriend, John, seem set for stellar careers in their chosen fields, Thisbe works nights as a hostess at a glitzy harbourside Sydney club - a job she despises but has paid the rent for the last three years since university graduation.
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Loved it!
- De hansenfamily en 03-09-23
De: Kim Kelly
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Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass
- De: Isak Dinesen
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her; of primitive festivals; of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes; and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
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Sketches of Africa
- De Jay Quintana en 03-26-16
De: Isak Dinesen
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Corelli's Mandolin
- A Novel
- De: Louis de Bernieres
- Narrado por: Stephen Lang
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army.
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LOVELY! Moving, hilarious, enlightening...
- De AK en 07-26-19
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Like Family
- Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
- De: Paula McLain
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.
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A famous writer describes her life growing up in foster care
- De Nancy C. en 12-21-18
De: Paula McLain
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The Truth According to Us
- A Novel
- De: Annie Barrows
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee, Tara Sands, Julia Whelan, y otros
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In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with boredom.
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Not the Potato Peel Pie Society...
- De Blue en 06-15-15
De: Annie Barrows
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The Girls in the Picture
- A Novel
- De: Melanie Benjamin
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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It is 1914, and 25-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers" - the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you'll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all. In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium.
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Melodramatic
- De Kay en 02-12-18
De: Melanie Benjamin
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Mrs. Everything
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Weiner
- Narrado por: Ari Graynor, Beth Malone
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies.
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Absolutely beautiful
- De Courtney Engle en 06-13-19
De: Jennifer Weiner
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A Ladder to the Sky
- A Novel
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent - but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful - but desperately lonely - older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war.
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This is a very smart book
- De Johnnie Terry en 01-05-19
De: John Boyne
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A Wild and Heavenly Place
- De: Robin Oliveira
- Narrado por: Angus King, Katy Townsend, Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes’s loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. Yet, when Samuel saves Hailey’s brother from a runaway carriage, their connection is undeniable. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, their improbable love grows. But then the City of Glasgow Bank fails, and Hailey’s bankrupt father impulsively moves their family across the globe to Seattle.
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Sleepless in WA Territory
- De Alesia Weiss en 02-26-24
De: Robin Oliveira
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The Color of Light
- De: Karen White
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
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At thirty-two, Jillian Parrish finally finds the courage to put herself in the driver’s seat of her life. Pregnant and recently divorced, she and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina—Jillian’s only source of happy childhood memories. Summers spent at her grandmother’s beach house had been Jillian’s sanctuary from indifferent parents—until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found.
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This author provides everything I need in a good read.
- De Mrs.MerryChristmasClaus en 03-11-24
De: Karen White
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The Romanov Empress
- A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
- De: C. W. Gortner
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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Narrated by the mother of Russia’s last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia’s most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall of the Romanovs as she fought to save her dynasty in its final years.
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Pure Excellence!
- De Bunny en 09-09-18
De: C. W. Gortner
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- Lynn A. D.
- 09-23-18
A full life
This is a very interesting story that takes the reader on a visual journey through the life of a young girl who grows to be a woman not afraid to stand out to accomplish what woman didn't attempt almost a century ago. Well presented.
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- Susanne
- 11-11-15
A Woman for the Ages
Would you listen to Circling the Sun again? Why?
Yes! I loved the sweeping grandeur of this story. I felt as if I was right there in Kenya with the narrator whispering at my ear. I loved the breathtaking description of the pastoral landscapes and the bustle of 20th century Nairobi.
Have you listened to any of Katharine McEwan’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes! I loved her book about Hemingway and his wife and felt that this was equally good if not better because Beryl Markham is a personal heroine of mine. I might have enjoyed this story more because my spirit seems to resonate more closely with Markham.
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- Loretta R. Cooper
- 02-03-16
Superlative!
I'm difficult to impress. I have more than 500 titles in my Audible library and I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book this much. Paula McLain has created a beautifully written epic with flawed characters that are so like ourselves we can't help but be captivated. This made me want to reread Out of Africa -- heck-- it made me want to run away to Kenya, race horses, learn to fly and chase handsome men around the continent. Luckily, Beryl Markham did all those things in her remarkable lifetime and more. Katherine McEwan did a breathtaking job of bringing it all to life. Can't say enough about this one. Don't miss it!
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- Geraldine
- 10-26-17
One of my ALL time favorites
Fabulously written !!
Beautifully read!
A Must to get on Audible!
I LOVED IT and you will too
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- jagster
- 03-05-16
Beautiful narration
Enjoyed listening to this story very much. Interesting story with lovely descriptions of life in Colonial Africa.
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- Carole Warner
- 07-28-16
Faithful portrayal of colonial Africa in the 1920s
Would you listen to Circling the Sun again? Why?
I will definitely listen again to Circling the Sun, I found the book a fascinating and faithful portrayal of British colonialists in East Africa in the 1920s. I lived in East and West Africa in the late 60s and early 70s and could easily relate to many of the things described in the book.Although it describes the colonial settlement of East Africa in the 1920s, the main theme of the book is freedom, More specifically, freedom from the expectations, constraints and moeurs of the society of British colonists who settled Kenya. The book wonderfully contrasts the life of the colonists trying to re-create a little England with the lifestyle of the local tribes.The theme of freedom runs through every chapter. It is expressed in Beryl's behavior, her beliefs, her conversation, her need to constantly challenge everyone and everything, She flaunts propriety and dedicates herself first and foremost to the riding and training of race horses.Beryl, the main character, struggles constantly against all social constraints. Her only wish is to live independently as a free spirit. Against all odds she becomes the first woman trainer of race horses in Kenya, destroying her two marriages along the way. In the first half of the book we can sympathize with Beryl who was abandoned by her mother at four years old, We can admire her drive, her resolve and determination, but as the book proceeds she appears more andmore as a selfish, egocentric woman, unwilling to compromise with anyone and Insensitive to the needs of people around her. The author dispensed with Beryl's mother in the first couple of chapters but later brought her back into the story without role or purpose. An unnecessary appendage. There was no emotional reunion or contact, nothing important that added to or changed the story.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
The story could be shorter and less repetitious and still achieve a good result. My only criticism is that the author has a penchant for frequent repetition of some descriptive phrases which become a bit redundant and detract from the descriptive and emotive effect.
What does Katharine McEwan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The narrator, Katherine McEwan, delivered an impeccable performance. I will certainly seek her out for whatever else she may have narrated. She's one of the best narrators that I've listened to. The narration is almost as important as the book. I have returned books only because I couldn't stand the voice of the narrator. She is great!
Who was the most memorable character of Circling the Sun and why?
Beryl, the main character
Any additional comments?
I can't say the book increased my interest in the subject matter, but I can say that it showed me an earlier view of colonial Africa which I lived 50 years later. It didn't change significantly in those 50 years except for the clothes, furniture and champagne!
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- Sally Pepper
- 05-15-19
Story of a Complex Woman
I waited anxiously trying to figure out how the introduction of the story related to life of the main character. This was a woman of such varied interests and experiences, who was way ahead of her time. Needy, yet independent, feminine, yet shying from appearing so, she is a character worth studying.
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- maureen brady
- 05-06-22
stayed up all night listening
This book captured a great spirited woman who had done more with her life , in tough times then one could imagine for the Era. Bravo to Markam, the story writer McLain, and the reader Ewan who kept me thoroughly entertained
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- Beverley Zabow
- 06-24-16
Outstanding! Exhibilarating
If you could sum up Circling the Sun in three words, what would they be?
Great Writing, Fantastic Reading, Fascinating Heroine, True Story
What did you like best about this story?
Honest depiction of a multi-faceted incredible human being.
What does Katharine McEwan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Its hard to explain... but she gave so much life and humanity to Beryl. Her youthful voice and versatility added to much to the telling of this wonderful story.
If you could take any character from Circling the Sun out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Beryl, and I would try to get her to open up to me, to explain some of her choices.
Any additional comments?
It took me a while to get into this book - persevere, its worth it!
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- Bokworm
- 10-17-15
Excellent in All Ways
What made the experience of listening to Circling the Sun the most enjoyable?
Excellent narrator. Excellent story line. Everything about this book was EXCELLENT. There was a definite progression of story line, a lot of interesting information, descriptions are wonderful. Story carries the reader --I enjoyed this book from start to finish
Who was your favorite character and why?
All characters great.
Which scene was your favorite?
all
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
too long for one visit
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