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Geraldine Brooks

Start date: December 1, 2009

Finish date: January 31, 2010

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Feb 03, 2009 Lisa Hickman rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, literary-fiction, bookmarks-2008

Geraldine Brooks tale of the storied history of the Sarajevo Haggadah was compelling. I most enjoyed reading about how the book changed hands and withstood censorship, burning and religious intolerance over its 500 year history. My favorite period of its history was the creation of the illustrations.

I liked the forensic study of the book leading to the passages back in time. It was almost dreamlike. The science gave some clues about the possible travels of the book, then the reader was transport ...more

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Feb 07, 2009 Betsy rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, australian-authors, historical

For some reason, Brooks' writing just doesn't grab me. I read Year of Wonders first and then heard such rave reviews about this one that even though I wasn't thrilled with Wonders, I wanted to give this a try. It was better than the other book, but still didn't love it.

I do give her high marks for the amount of research she does and I loved the history in this book. I also loved the order of this book, with Hanna finding something in the book and then going back in time to have it explained. I t ...more

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Feb 07, 2009 Charisse rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

Nicely written. I enjoyed the chapters where we went back in time to find out how these items got trapped in the Haggadah - I agree with Jeanette that Brooks definately put a lot of research into this historical work.

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