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Remarkable Creatures: A Novel
Registered by copchic905 of St. Louis, Missouri USA on 7/10/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Product Description
A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's new novel.
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man.
Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset.
A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's new novel.
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man.
Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset.
ooooppppps my bad forgot to add in Cinnycat's book trade :) Sorry so late.
thanks again for the trade! Your books aren't in the mail yet, but I'm almost finished with the one I had to read before sending. I'll journal this again when I'm done reading it...
I had to read this book because I've been thinking of the ocean and visiting dinosaur museums (nowhere around here.) And also this was on a wish list (shh!) . And I've heard this was being turned into a movie. And because I haven't read many of the books that copchic905 sent me in a generous swap! ANYWAY!
I loved this story of spinster sisters moving to the gorgeous sounding Lyme Regis when their brother gets married in the early 1800s. With the lives of these women, sometimes it seemed like not being married gives you a bit more freedom (if you have enough money to put food on the table), especially if you just want to walk the beaches everyday, even if you can't walk down the streets of London by yourself. But I'd really rather live someplace like Lyme Regis than London anyway. One of the sisters, Elizabeth Philpot, is a fossil hunter, who runs into a much younger girl, Mary Anning, who also collects fossils -- to pay her family's bills. Obviously not many women were collecting dirty fossils on the beach if they couldn't even walk the streets of London on their own, so they become friends. When Mary Anning starts to find complete skeletons of giant "monsters" never seen before, what becomes interesting is the idea that extinction was very scary to people living in the early 1800s. Most of the characters (if not all) are based on real people.
I loved this book for the early 1800's ladies discovering dinosaurs on the beaches of the lovely Lyme Regis. Even with all that, I think it lacked the mood, atmosphere and tension of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'. But it may have seemed more necessary in that book than it was in this one.
I loved this story of spinster sisters moving to the gorgeous sounding Lyme Regis when their brother gets married in the early 1800s. With the lives of these women, sometimes it seemed like not being married gives you a bit more freedom (if you have enough money to put food on the table), especially if you just want to walk the beaches everyday, even if you can't walk down the streets of London by yourself. But I'd really rather live someplace like Lyme Regis than London anyway. One of the sisters, Elizabeth Philpot, is a fossil hunter, who runs into a much younger girl, Mary Anning, who also collects fossils -- to pay her family's bills. Obviously not many women were collecting dirty fossils on the beach if they couldn't even walk the streets of London on their own, so they become friends. When Mary Anning starts to find complete skeletons of giant "monsters" never seen before, what becomes interesting is the idea that extinction was very scary to people living in the early 1800s. Most of the characters (if not all) are based on real people.
I loved this book for the early 1800's ladies discovering dinosaurs on the beaches of the lovely Lyme Regis. Even with all that, I think it lacked the mood, atmosphere and tension of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'. But it may have seemed more necessary in that book than it was in this one.
Sent as a wish granted RABCK with a bookray! Surprise and enjoy! thanks again for sharing copchic!
A surprise book! Thank you, cinnycat! Received in the mail yesterday. My daughter had a children's book about Mary Anning that was interesting, so I'm interested in reading this novel about her, and my daughter might like it too. Not sure when it will resurface at the top of Mt. TBR but it's safe with me until then. Thanks again!
I read this book last month and am only now getting around to journaling it. I enjoyed this novelization of Mary Anning's life.
I had heard of Anning first through a children's book called Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon, by Jeannine Atkins, when its illustrator, Michael Dooling, visited my children's elementary school; my daughter has always wanted to be a paleontologist so I couldn't resist buying that book for her.
I had not heard of Elizabeth Philpot, however, and at first thought she was a fictional character invented to keep Mary company in the story, but subsequent online reading has shown that she was a real person too. Interesting women, and well-written story!
I had heard of Anning first through a children's book called Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon, by Jeannine Atkins, when its illustrator, Michael Dooling, visited my children's elementary school; my daughter has always wanted to be a paleontologist so I couldn't resist buying that book for her.
I had not heard of Elizabeth Philpot, however, and at first thought she was a fictional character invented to keep Mary company in the story, but subsequent online reading has shown that she was a real person too. Interesting women, and well-written story!
Journal Entry 8 by 
glade1
at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Tuesday, June 9, 2015
glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Released 9 yrs ago (6/9/2015 UTC) at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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