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I thought it would be a second Possession, but it's not, which is good. In some ways, Byatt's style in this book seems closer to the style of her s...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 3 3 false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 05:22:57 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 19:47:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 5 3 false Mon Jul 27 06:28:23 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 13:23:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 5 0 false Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 13 21:34:11 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 13 21:34:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 4 0 false Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 18:17:49 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 18:18:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 5 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 20:21:02 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 21:50:32 -0800 2009
It's spectacular just as a great piece of entertainment, keeping the reader tuned in and turning pages with suspense and surprises as thick and thrilling as any bestseller aimed at the mass market. It is a deeply insightful study of family. A...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 0 0 true Sat Dec 05 15:52:14 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 16:32:01 -0800 2009

Stan and Laurel visiting the small guage railway



Childhood summers were spent in 'Bandbox' Greatstone, where the far end of the tennis court bounded with the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway line carving its way up to Folkestone lighthouse. For that reason alone ...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 5 0 false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 07:55:51 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 07:56:32 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 3 0 false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 11:42:32 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 11:56:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 4 4 false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:29:37 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 08:51:22 -0700 2009 The Children's Book is an engaging work filled with interesting characters both involved in and discussing art, politics, class differences, education, raising children, women's rights, ...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 3 1 false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 09:55:48 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 09:58:06 -0700 2009 1 excessively researched book. I can't say well-researched or not, because Fabianism, Anarchism, the suffragette movement and puppetry in early 20th century Germany are not my areas of expertise, but while A.S. Byatt clearly put a lot of effort into collecting facts and figures for this wor...more...]]> 6806546 0701183896 9780701183899 12 5 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6806546-the-children-s-book 4 3 false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 13:23:25 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 13:24:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6806546 0701183896 9780701183899 12 5 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6806546-the-children-s-book 4 1 false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 18:48:43 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 18:50:25 -0700 2009
English author A. S. Byatt's The Children's Hour may be set at the cusp of the Victorian and Edwardian eras in England, but at times it feels strangely contempora...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 2 0 false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 02:49:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 03:05:05 -0800 2009 Possession, which I loved, I found myself in an adversarial position with the author as I read. There is just too much. Of everything. Too many characters, too much historical exposition, too much digression to indulge the author's habit of inserting story-stopping piece...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 4 0 false Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 19:13:02 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 14:39:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 4 1 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 05:50:02 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 06:09:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 3 0 false Wed Dec 02 16:56:37 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 17:02:47 -0800 2009 The Children's Book as a stunning literary achievement, a thinking person's novel, and the most noteworthy of Byatt's books since Possession was published almost 20 years ago. ...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 1 1 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:05:02 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 10:02:44 -0700 2009 http://passionatebooklover.wordpress.com...

The Children’s Book spans the Victorian Era through the end of World War I and centers around the artistic Wellwood family and their friends.

Olive Wellwood, a popular author of children’s books, lives with her husband Humphry and ...more...]]> 6280379 0307272095 9780307272096 317 187 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280379.The_Children_s_Book 4 0 false Mon Dec 14 08:38:06 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 09:29:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6280379