A review by ryner
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

DNF: This memoir of a well-to-do white British lady's years spent operating a coffee farm in Kenya landed on my TBR list after reading Beatriz Williams' Her Last Flight. I made it only halfway through the second chapter before recognizing that it was just not that interesting and so slow that it was putting me to sleep. But more significantly, it is pretty cringey in its colonialist perspective, particularly with respect to the "natives," whom the author mentions frequently in a condescending and dehumanizing manner. While it may still have merit from a scholarly angle, it certainly hasn't aged well otherwise.