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The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat Pray Love).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465453-the-signature-of-all-things
When I put it on my kindle I missed the small print where it said 512 pages…..
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I like her most recent works – if you are so inclined, I’d like to hear your opinion on Signature. I’m having a hard time finding a book that appeals to me lately.
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I don’t know about this one – I like the way she writes but I really don’t think the book had to be so long. I keep thinking – okay, I get it, can we move on to something else now –
Funny, normally I’m very patient. I’m to the point where I’d just like it to end.
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There’s a sort of hypnotising effect that keeps you ploughing through a book even though you’ve lost interest. When I catch myself at it, I read the last page. That breaks the spell.
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Eat, pray, love. Jazzy should remind what’sherface she forgot something…drink. Whatsherface also stole her book title. Jacob Boehme wrote The Signature of All things in the seventeenth century. She’s not terribly original for sure.
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Not a lot of drinking goes on in this book so I’m doing my share for them. lol
The original book of the same title by Boehme is actually mentioned several times in the story (which takes place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) when wealthy families had huge libraries. Botany, science, evolution, religion, abolition, you name it, for every subject many original (or at least very old) sources are referred to. If nothing else, she must have done a lot of research putting it all together in one story.
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Maybe that explains the length -Gilbert was maybe trying to touch on every issue to pay homage to the old dude. Thanks for your thoughts, Lin. A long book, in and of itself does not overly concern me, but if it’s not well put together? Forearmed, for sure!
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Sounds like it. Some of those older books are quite fascinating.
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Tried responding via email, but the response went below Maggie’s response. At least it didn’t go into cyberspace.
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