Book title: Postcards from
the Sky
Author: Erin Seidemann
Rating: 4 out of 5
I won this book through
Goodreads giveaways.
First at all I must say I love the dedication, it was maybe one of the best I ever got so far. The "Spread your wings!" was a very nice touch. Thank you Erin.
This book was a mistake book, the one you take for a week-end away, thinking it is not the usual kind of book you read so it will take you longer to get into it or to finish, and at the end you fell so deep into it, you end up reading it in 2 hours, with nothing left to read for the next days. I just couldn't put it down.
First at all I must say I love the dedication, it was maybe one of the best I ever got so far. The "Spread your wings!" was a very nice touch. Thank you Erin.
This book was a mistake book, the one you take for a week-end away, thinking it is not the usual kind of book you read so it will take you longer to get into it or to finish, and at the end you fell so deep into it, you end up reading it in 2 hours, with nothing left to read for the next days. I just couldn't put it down.
Erin takes us through all
the experiences, good and bad, from the moment she decided to learn how to fly,
through purchasing her first plane, to have her first big solo adventure.
She has a fast-paced
writing style, very straight forward and honest about what she writes (maybe a
bit too much, we have a lot of details about her love life). She doesn’t hide
anything and doesn’t apologize neither for her choices of themes.
Each chapter has a very nice quote about adventures, and the edition I got had great black and white pictures in the middle. Aviation is not a world I know a lot about, so they were a very welcome touch.
It is very interesting to follow the progress, struggles, adventures, down and up of a woman following her dream to be a pilot and have her own plane in a world so strongly dominated by men. Mentality is changing, but there is still so much more to change.
She gives us enough details of flying and planes to keep us wondering and interested, without drowning us and making it boring. We have enough technical details to understand her struggles and pride, maybe feeling like being a pilot ourselves!
Her adventure to the Bahamas made me think of all my own travels and all the ones still to come. What a blast. I recognized a lot of the feelings and sensations you encounter while so far from home in an unknown country.
Highly recommend you this book, easily readable in one afternoon, with a very nice and heartfelt story, laugh and cringe moments.
Erin, if you ever need a co-pilot, I am all yours!
Each chapter has a very nice quote about adventures, and the edition I got had great black and white pictures in the middle. Aviation is not a world I know a lot about, so they were a very welcome touch.
It is very interesting to follow the progress, struggles, adventures, down and up of a woman following her dream to be a pilot and have her own plane in a world so strongly dominated by men. Mentality is changing, but there is still so much more to change.
She gives us enough details of flying and planes to keep us wondering and interested, without drowning us and making it boring. We have enough technical details to understand her struggles and pride, maybe feeling like being a pilot ourselves!
Her adventure to the Bahamas made me think of all my own travels and all the ones still to come. What a blast. I recognized a lot of the feelings and sensations you encounter while so far from home in an unknown country.
Highly recommend you this book, easily readable in one afternoon, with a very nice and heartfelt story, laugh and cringe moments.
Erin, if you ever need a co-pilot, I am all yours!
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