on page 218 we meet Louisa Alcott and Ralph Emerson. Statue of zoologist Louis Agassiz at Stanford after the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeGiant Ground Sloth (Megatherium)A lovely book, really lovely. It was those last 50 pages or so that took it from a 5 to a 4* result.
This is a gorgeous book, and it really appealed to me because it bursts with the protagonist's maps and illustrations. The protagonist, T.S. Spivet, is a precocious 12-year-old cartographer who lives on a ranch with his cowboy father and scientist mother. One day, a director of the Smithsonian Insti...
I loved the the level of detail and minutiae in this novel. I am a total geek for ephemera. A very unique and intelligent bildungsroman. The protagonist is curious about everything and is trying to figure out the world, including the inevitable tragedy. Unfortunately, the resolution was hokey and co...
Profusely illustrated with maps and diagrams of all sorts, this book kept me chuckling and shaking my head, turning the book sideways to read strange footnotes and study charts. Twelve year old prodigy T.S. Spivet's unique worldview brought me hours of delight, from his home on the Coppertop Ranch ...
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