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Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead – Quotes

On February 9, 2022February 13, 2022 By bookskepticIn Uncategorized1 Comment

I don't regret anything, but I will if I let myself. I thought I would believe I'd seen the world, but there is too much of the world and too little of life. I thought I would believe I'd completed something, but now I doubt anything can be completed. I thought I would not be …

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Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead

On February 7, 2022February 13, 2022 By bookskepticIn Uncategorized1 Comment

At almost 600 pages I would call this book sprawling, but Maggie Shipstead jokingly calls it ‘slender wisp of a thing’. Understandable when you know the original manuscript was over 1000 pages. Irrespective of its size it is a riveting story of the life of Marian Graves, a fictional pilot, and her attempt to fly …

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