If there was any "flaw" in AML's life it is that she was so often, and consistently, overshadowed by her famous spouse. An intensely private person (today's celebrities could learn a lesson or six from the Lindbergh's ability to retreat into almost complete anonymity as relates to their family), I believe that one of her greatest gifts was agreeing to release these very poignant, private thoughts to the public.
I truly believe that her diaries and letters of 1932 on could be a primer on grieving and hope and pray it has been adopted as such among those who need it - even as I hope and pray I never do. Her writing is so poignant and personal that I found myself (arrogantly) "mourning" along with her and could not shake the feeling long after I had closed the book. As a parent I tiptoe around the notion of harm to my children with that impenetrable "nothing could happen to us" mantra that I have to believe. The experience of the Lindbergh's - and her reactions to it in diaries and letters - reminds us that none of us is safe. For that reason I both highly recommend - and add appropriate caution - to reading this book. People who are very sensitive and empathetic or at a hard point in their lives may be both bolstered, and grief-stricken, by some of the content. (It may be helpful to have her later publications close at hand to remind oneself that, taken as a whole, she did survive what would seem to be this unbearable loss).
The book, far from seeming "dated" (the entries closing in on being 80 years old!) are as moving today as ever. I believe you could give a modern reader with no "background" these entries and he/she would not immediately gather that they were written so long ago. I truly believe this book should be required reading in High School and it's a shame that it is not. From the heights of adventure to the depths of despair, AML wrote it all in a poetic but honest style. In an age when "blogging" has convinced too many that a "picture paints a thousand words" and literary style is no longer necessary, AML paints such poignant pictures WITH her words that the photos are rendered unnecessary).
Don't let the age of the book fool you - this one is a gem.
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