What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Young woman finds object in old book [s]
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Roslyn
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Sep 19, 2015 01:56PM
Sorry I only read a bit of this book before I misplaced it, so I can't furnish a lot of information about it. I believe the book is a few years old. It seems to be a semi-historical novel about a young woman who finds an object (a feather??) in the pages of an old book. The story follows the history of the object from antiquity to the present time. I'd love to find the title or author so I can finish this interesting story. Happy Reading Everyone!
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Because it was a few years ago and I had the book for such a short time before it was lost, I don't recall if it was YA, adult, the cover art or country. I know this isn't much to go on. Because there are similar book antiquarian novels, and I may be confusing what I say below with other novels; but:
the young woman may have been just starting out as a book historian, or the book may have been in her father's library or book store.
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What I could add is that the found object passed through many hands over the centuries and told the stories of all the people who had the object.
SOLVED.Yes!!!!! Thank you so very very much, Chrysanthemum. People of the Book it is. I'm going to get another copy tomorrow. Geraldine Brooks is a wonderful author.
Happy to have been able to help. We read this at our local book club a couple of years ago and it was one of those that stuck in my head. If you google the real book, you can see some of the illuminations. They are stunning.
I loved it too. I recommended it to my book club. I recognized it the minute you mentioned the feather found in an o,d book...the Haggadah
Ordered it from Amazon yesterday so I can finish it. Thank you again for remembering. BTW: Can't figure out how to send this feed to "Solved" discussions. Would appreciate it if someone would do so.
