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The Book of Speculation

Erika Swyler

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Jul 21, 2015 Candice rated it liked it

Here's another book that didn't live up to its glowing reviews, in my opinion. It was a good enough story - it went between the present and the 1780s-90s - but it just didn't resonate well with me. A present-day librarian is sent a book by a bookseller halfway across the country because the bookseller sees that the librarian is a descendent of one of the people in the book. The book in question is a journal or ledger of a circus and the parts of The Book of Speculation that deal with the 1780s d ...more

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May 01, 2016 Soren rated it it was amazing

Shelves: magical-realism, read-in-2016

I wanted this book to never end.

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Jun 19, 2015 Karen rated it liked it

I liked the originality of the plot and the fact that it had a mystery to it. The characters were mostly flat, and the women especially did not make sense (odd since the author is a woman). Both Alice and Enola are always mad at Simon and although he loves them both we never see any interaction that would make their supposed closeness plausible. But as a plot- and setting-driven book it was a good read.

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