bookshelves: adventure, classic, historical-fiction, revenge, britain-scotland, victorian, seven-seas, war, published-1889, hardback Read in June, 2009, read count: 2 Description: Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North American wildernes...
I'm really becoming a fan of Barrett's writing style, how she mixes science, history and humanity. This book didn't pull me in quite as quickly as Ship Fever but about halfway through I really started to feel myself involved in the story, especially when Naomi's behavior started turning really inten...
Wasn't sure if I'd like it because typically I have a hard time getting into short story collections. I got this because I got The Air We Breathe and found it was a sort of continuation of some of the characters and plot points from Ship Fever. Ended up really enjoying the unique combination of scie...
Enjoyed the internal and external journeys in this book. Beautifully told. I found it a bit unsettling because it is a historical novel woven with a more classical character novel. Perhaps I have read so many Arctic and Antarctic journals and the author has done such a good job, I found it hard to r...
Thank you Joanna for really pushing and pushing for me to read this - you see I do not like short stories! Joanna didn't give up on me b/c she knew what I like in books and she knew this book just could not be missed, despite that it was short stories. If you like short stories, you would probably g...
As implied by the biblical illusion in the title, this is about people uncomfortable with wealth and the practical and emotional hurdles they go through to try to find happiness.The main character, Rose, is an heiress trying to dispose of her money and also fighting a custody battle against her ex-h...
I honestly found this to be a rather strange book because I still don't know if I actually liked any of the main characters. I'm not even show how much I like the book. One could also say the book just stops. I think the book works because it is about life, about ordinary lives. Perhaps this is w...
Ship Fever is a beautiful colelction of short stories and the titular novella covering the lives of famous scientists and their apostles. Mendel gets his due, as do Carol Linneaus and Darwin and Alfred Wallace. Each story here is a gem (with the exception of "The Marburg Sisters" which I didn't tak...
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