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During The English Age Of Reason, A Woman Cloistered Since Birth Learns That Knowledge Is No Substitute For Experience.Raised By Her Father In Near Isolation In The English Countryside, Emilie Selden Is Trained As A Brilliant Natural Philosopher And Alchemist In The Spring Of 1725, Father And Daughter Embark Upon Their Most Daring Alchemical Experiment To Date Attempting To Breathe Life Into Dead Matter But When Emilie, Against Her Father S Wishes, Experiences The Passion Of First Love, She Is Banished To London, Where She Soon Discovers She Knows Nothing About Human Nature, Or Her Own Family S Complicated Past So Begins Her Shocking Journey To Enlightenment Also Available As A Random House Large Print Edition And As An EBook.
Those of you who are Old School know about the original Legend of Zelda The first game in the Zelda franchise was epic It was badass In my personal opinion, few games have been as awesome since This book is a lot like the original Legend of Zelda Unfortunately, it is like all the crappy
Katharine McMahon is an excellent example of the problem I have with modern writers In reading or listening to, in this case her book I found I was transported through the ailes of a book store One moment I was reading something out of historical fiction, then scientific theory, and then a trashy roman
I just didn t really get into this book but trudged my way through hoping it would get interesting It sounded interesting beautiful, intelligent Emilie, raised in seclusion by her father to be an alchemist and natural philosopher is swept off her feet by the first handsome man she sees and exiled to Lon
I have read a LOT of negative reviews about this book and I really don t get it I must have horrible taste then, because I absolutely LOVED it Written on Feb 24, 2009 at 09 29PM Read the Dutch translation.
It is rare for me to say this about a book, but I did not like this book It was disappointing and not at all satisfying I m not sure what I expected, perhaps for it to be a bit like the conservative, 19th century England of Austen novels, which it wasn t It was well written and seemingly well researched,
This book was a cross between literary fiction and bodice ripper romance Katharine McMahon seems to be sitting over the fence, not quite sure what kind of book she wanted to write She put her heroine in a similar position Emilie is not quite sure if she prefers to sit in the lab and peform physical and che
I read halfway through this book one evening, but then it didn t seem worth finishing The plot description made it sound like an intelligent book about an intelligent woman living learning at the time of Isaac Newton But the book wasn t smart and neither was the main character The author latched onto one co
A good read nice gothic feel to it, though I felt that it built to something that never really arrived.
It s strange the way some stories don t get to you This one had everything I should love in a novel an evocative setting, a smart heroine, an exploration of a father daughter relationship, a touch of mystery, and of course, some romance But there s something that didn t click Maybe the lack of elegance in the
Another really good book I love historical fiction The main character, Emilie, drove me crazy at some points because she made such bad, crazy decisions But I had to remind myself that it was the time period she was growing up in and also that she had lived a very sheltered life, which could definitely happen i