I Was Amelia Earhart

I finished I Was Amelia Earhart earlier this week. I picked it up on a whimsy, but the first page had me hooked...

"As far back as she could remember, she always wanted to be a heroine... Not on a screen in a dusty vaudeville house, but out in the real world. The painted goddesses ruling countries and fighting wars weren't at all like the women she knew. The women she knew did what men expected of them. Heroines, they did whatever they wanted. They smoked cigarettes on horseback under silken skies. They carried guns and had a multitude of lovers. She was seduced by the vision of an imaginary world where women led extraordinary lives..." I Was Amelia Earhart (Jane Mendelsohn)