2.5This really looks and sounds like my kind of book. I did like some things, but it never really grabbed my attention and held on. It moved slowly at times, and maybe I was a little distracted while reading and didn't connect as well as needed. When I felt something it was mostly down feelings. ...
Coralie lived in a house that also housed her father’s museum of wonders. She was not permitted to enter the museum part of the house until she reached a certain age. It contained specimens her father believed would be upsetting for her to see until she was 10 years old. In 1903, Coralie is finally ...
Any museum display tells two facets of a story: one of a narrow scope which describes the exhibit itself, and the other of a broader perspective in which different situational and historical threads converge -- the macro and micro, if you will. The museum in this story houses "freaks of nature" -- h...
so. boring. and practically no plot too. the only little mystery was resolved with about 100 pages to go till the end. really? and there was ... wait for it ... INSTA-LOVE! probably the bane of my existence. just ... ugh.
Coralie Sardie is a sheltered young girl growing up in a freak show which her father owns and runs. Eventually her path crosses with Eddie Cohen's, a Russian immigrant and a photographer.
I received a copy of this novel from the publishers via Net Galley and this is my honest review. Coralie Sardie has lived at her father's Museum of Extraordinary Things her whole life. Though she was sheltered from the contents of the museum until she was ten she has grown up surrounded by the peo...
I have really enjoyed Alice Hoffman's previous novels but have to say that this novel was not on par with them at all.The Museum of Extraordinary Things is set in the 1900s on Long Island in New York. The novel is told from two points of view.The first point of view is by Coralie Sardie. Coralie is ...
What just happened?I think I'm turning into a monster, a horrible monster who hates everything and everyone and lives on dissatisfaction and bitterness.How in the world could I not have loved this book? I mean, look at the title! The cover! The synopsis! It's full of promise and I was lured in by th...
I had high hopes for this one. The beginning was entertaining, but I quickly lost interest. Maybe it was my ADD kicking in. It failed by 50-page test, so I'm not sure how to rate this since I didn't finish it. It wasn't necessarily bad writing. It could be that I just wasn't in the right mood for th...
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