Reviews for Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century

The average rating for Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-20 00:00:00 Joseph Calverase Anne Audain is a great runner, she will tell you so herself, repeatedly, every other page or so in her autobiography. She is however, unfortunately, not a great writer. When I saw that John L Parker was coauthoring the book I thought he would help with the writing of , turn a good story into a book people might actually enjoy reading, unfortunately, for whatever reason, this isn't the case. Audain is content to tell us her entire story as though we are not there, the exciting things have already happened and this is the tired rehash. There is not a single scene in this book in which the audience is shown what happens, the author makes it clrea that everything has already happened before we got here and nothing exciting is going to happen for the rest of the book. I confess I couldnt finish the book- I made it through until the end, where she winds on for about fifty pages telling about every race she won and how fast her times were even though she wasn't training very much and was getting, to quote herself and other runners, "fat." Wow! Talk about inspiring! I'm going to quit training too and become fat, maybe then I can win races too!

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-15 00:00:00 James Lester Competent collection of short bios of 49 Irish women who were movers and shakers in various fields.