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Fly Girl by Ann Hood

Fly Girl

A Memoir

by Ann Hood

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  • May 2022, 288 pages
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Anne C. (Herndon, VA)

Interesting Topic
Those readers who love nostalgia, when travelling by plane was glamorous and luxurious, will enjoy this memoir, and anyone planning a career as a flight attendant can learn a great deal from this book. The best parts of the book are the descriptions of her duties and interactions with passengers in flight.

However, those of us who read memoirs and autobiographies expecting to be inspired by a story of someone overcoming a hard life may be disappointed, as I was. The author is a gifted (and successful) writer who describes her training and work as a flight attendant for eight years, before becoming a full-timemore
Jane B. (Chicago, IL)

Fly Girl
I wanted to like this book more than I did. Ann Hood is a good writer but I think her editor might have been a little more helpful. The book reads like pages taken verbatim from a diary. I did this, then I did this, then later I did this. The innocence of the 22 year old college student seems to last the whole book or at least the term innocent is repeated often. Though pride in one's job is admirable, this too is repeated often. Meantime, this very proud stewardess proclaims herself a writer and this sets her apart from the other more mundane stewardesses. Did she really mean it to seem that way? I don't know-something is off.
Shaun D. (Woodridge, IL)

Disappointing In Every Aspect
Although I was looking forward to reading 'Fly Girl' by Ann Hood I found my attention wandered throughout and had to force myself to finish it.

I was surprised to see that this wasn't the author's inaugural effort as it read more like a high-school "Tell Me About a Time When" type of assignment. My disappointments and critiques are numerous. I found several factual errors, some statements copied almost word-for-word from Wikipedia, along with information that clearly wasn't fact-checked nor verified. (unless verification efforts aren't included until the final editing process?).

THE NARRATIVE LACKS CONTINUITY.
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