Remarkable Creatures
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:50 pm
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier.
I've just finished reading this and found it educational as well as entertaining. It is not the first Tracy Chevalier I have read and one of the joys of reading is that she can take an otherwise inanimate object or piece of art and bring it alive for the reader. This one was set in Lyme Regis, UK, and for anyone with even a passing interest in fossils should find it interesting. Although a work of fiction, she has used real people, places and times, giving background to some of the curios that we have perhaps seen in museums and books but seldom think of in terms of graft. It was a light read for all that.
I've just finished reading this and found it educational as well as entertaining. It is not the first Tracy Chevalier I have read and one of the joys of reading is that she can take an otherwise inanimate object or piece of art and bring it alive for the reader. This one was set in Lyme Regis, UK, and for anyone with even a passing interest in fossils should find it interesting. Although a work of fiction, she has used real people, places and times, giving background to some of the curios that we have perhaps seen in museums and books but seldom think of in terms of graft. It was a light read for all that.