The Chemistry of Tears

by Peter Carey | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0307958396 Global Overview for this book
Registered by winglmn60wing of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 4/5/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by winglmn60wing from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Saturday, April 5, 2014
Read this one for my real life bookclub.. and have to say I was disappointed. I have an 'on/off' relationship with Carey's writing... some books I adore.. some (like this one) leave me cold...

Hopefully another reader will enjoy this one more than I did!

From Booklist...
'Carey is a bewitching storyteller preternaturally attuned to our endless struggles over love and eccentric obsessions. In this fairy tale within a fairy tale rife with historical and literary allusions, Catherine, a horologist (an expert in the science and instruments of measuring time) on the staff of a London museum, is mad with grief after the sudden death of her married lover and struggles to focus on the new restoration project her sympathetic boss hopes will comfort her. She does become enthralled by the notebooks of Henry Brandling, a wealthy nineteenth-century Englishman who went to Germany to commission an automaton for his ailing son, only to come under the spell of Sumper, a hulking, vehement inventor who may be a thief, brute, genius, or all three. As she unfolds Henry’s mysterious ordeal, Catherine meticulously reconstructs Sumper’s elaborate, mechanized wonder, work complicated by her increasing fears about her possibly deranged assistant. Set during the Gulf oil crisis and reminiscent of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) in its linkage of a rescued automaton and loneliness, Carey’s gripping, if at times overwrought, fable raises provocative questions about life, death, and memory and our power to create and destroy.'

Journal Entry 2 by winglmn60wing at 2014 Melbourne Convention in -- Controlled Release, Victoria Australia on Saturday, April 5, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (4/11/2014 UTC) at 2014 Melbourne Convention in -- Controlled Release, Victoria Australia

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Journal Entry 3 by winglmn60wing at 2014 Melbourne Convention in -- Controlled Release, Victoria Australia on Saturday, April 5, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (4/11/2014 UTC) at 2014 Melbourne Convention in -- Controlled Release, Victoria Australia

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To the finder of this book:
Hello and congratulations! You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. I hope you'll stick around a bit and get to know BookCrossing --maybe even make a journal entry on this book. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free!) And if you do choose to join, I hope you'll consider using me, lmn60, as your referring member. Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend or even set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels- You'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free. Happy reading!

Journal Entry 4 by wingCassiopaeiawing at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Thursday, April 17, 2014
Picked this up at the Convention and will probably release it for World Bookcrossing Day!

Journal Entry 5 by wingCassiopaeiawing at Deli 1884 in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Sunday, April 20, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (4/21/2014 UTC) at Deli 1884 in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia

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Journal Entry 6 by wingmarmee463wing at Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Monday, April 21, 2014
Caught today at our first meet-up at Deli 1884, good food, good coffee, great company and hopefully a good book for my ever growing pile of TBRs.

Journal Entry 7 by wingmarmee463wing at Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Saturday, May 10, 2014
I really, really tried but I just couldn't get in to it. I know someone who is anxious to have it in his/her grasp I shall pass it to that person at the earliest opportunity after he/she decides that jetsetting is really not his/her scene and finally comes home.

Journal Entry 8 by wingmarmee463wing at Green Sage Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Friday, May 30, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (5/30/2014 UTC) at Green Sage Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia

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