12) Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
Book number twelve (I'm falling behind here!), Falling Angels by tracy Chevalier.
Rating:
3/5 stars
Review:
I will read anything that Ms. Chevalier writes, simply because The Lady and the Unicorn and The Girl With a Pearl Earring were such great books. I was expecting something similarly wonderful, but I didn't enjoy Falling Angels as much. I think that, to the author's defense, two reason why I didn't like it were 1) it was set in the early 1900s, as opposed to the medieval or renaissance periods, which are my eras of choice, and 2) the correlation between the story and the art/artist to which it was referring was opaque. A little background - Chevalier writes most remarkably about a piece of art, and the artists lives as they are lived around the time that art was produced, or what circumstances caused the art to come into being. With The Girl With a Pearl Earring, it was about Vermeer and his famous painting, with The Lady and the Unicorn, it was about the tapestry making industry and how these tapestries came into being. Falling Angels didn't seem to touch on any specific piece of art, though I'm sure a little research and less laziness on my part would have led to a deeper understanding and appreciation for the subject matter she was attempting to address in this novel.
Rating:
3/5 stars
Review:
I will read anything that Ms. Chevalier writes, simply because The Lady and the Unicorn and The Girl With a Pearl Earring were such great books. I was expecting something similarly wonderful, but I didn't enjoy Falling Angels as much. I think that, to the author's defense, two reason why I didn't like it were 1) it was set in the early 1900s, as opposed to the medieval or renaissance periods, which are my eras of choice, and 2) the correlation between the story and the art/artist to which it was referring was opaque. A little background - Chevalier writes most remarkably about a piece of art, and the artists lives as they are lived around the time that art was produced, or what circumstances caused the art to come into being. With The Girl With a Pearl Earring, it was about Vermeer and his famous painting, with The Lady and the Unicorn, it was about the tapestry making industry and how these tapestries came into being. Falling Angels didn't seem to touch on any specific piece of art, though I'm sure a little research and less laziness on my part would have led to a deeper understanding and appreciation for the subject matter she was attempting to address in this novel.
posted by neffbot at 1:57 PM
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I love her books, too!
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