Feminism, history, 19thC England, all these are good tags for me. It tells the real story of Mary Anning, a paleontologist and her struggle to reach recognition in a men’s world and in a world where science was for upper classes. It is the story of a friendship between two women who have a very unladylike passion for fossils. It happens in the King George era, like Austen’s novels. It is set in Lyme Regis, England, a place I visited last year and it’s always nice to read a book when you know the setting. In appearance, Remarkable Creatures has several ingredients of a book I should like. That was the final blow, I stopped exactly at page 111 and the book has 415 pages. But I had to acknowledge that I started to shy away from the book and I’d rather not read at all than read it. Of course, I feel guilty and at the beginning I wanted to stick with it and endure it until the end for the sake of that readalong. I’m afraid this review is going to be a breach in the book blogging etiquette: I abandoned the book of my own readalong. Remarkable Creatures is this month read for our book club Les Copines d’abord and it is also a readalong for other bloggers interested in reading this novel.
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