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false <![CDATA[Burning Bright]]> 2871 24 Tracy Chevalier captivated readers when Dutton published The Girl with a Pearl Earring in December 1999. Since then, she has written two New York Times bestsellers, Falling Angels and The Lady and the Unicorn. Now, three years after the publication of her last book, Chevalier is at the top of her form in the breathtaking novel Burning Bright. 1363345 2006 Burning Bright total:1841|5:145|4:499|3:766|2:353|1:78| 1841 5803 2712 438 3 3 true false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 16:00:33 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 16:43:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 02:15:12 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 02:22:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 07:58:38 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:35:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false true Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 05:15:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 05:15:29 -0800 2008
As a stand alone book it works well. 1790's london is beautifully evoked as the Kellaways (...more...]]> 1 2 true false Thu Jun 18 06:23:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:31:03 -0700 2009
I adored 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', but this - oh, this is horrid. I bought it from Waterstones with my head held high, my expectations perhaps a little too high. I enjoyed the little booklet on William Blake; it made me think, This must mean the nove...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 17:12:15 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 00:30:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 18 18:35:47 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 17:36:15 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 18:35:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 05:26:18 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 05:26:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 00:25:29 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 00:32:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 02 13:42:33 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:55:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 13 18:10:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 18:22:22 -0700 2009 1 http://tickettoanywhere.blogspot.com/200...

I just recently finished reading Burning Bright, the latest novel by Tracy Chevalier. This is her mostly recent novel and to be honest the only reason that I read it is because it was chosen for my next book club. I have read other books by Cheva...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:40:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:43:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu May 29 05:51:33 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 05:57:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 03 13:43:14 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 16:35:24 -0700 2009
Neverthele...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 05:11:59 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 05:07:22 -0700 2009 Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier I found this book very disappointing.

The blurb enticed me to read it with the promise of the story of Jem and Maggie whose "friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbo...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 21:46:01 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 08:27:45 -0800 2008
With all of London as her backdrop, and with a cast of a few potentially interesting ch...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 13:57:35 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 13:59:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:44:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:44:19 -0800 2009 Tracy Chevalier's latest novel paints a colorful, compelling portrait of 18th-century London: the teeming streets, bawdy pubs, filthy factories, working-class homes, and the political unease generated by the French Revolution. Yet setting alone doesn't create a novel, and critics agree that Burning ...

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