Completed Shelf: Recently Added
Lists Shared
2 Listswyenotgo
Recent Activity
"An immensely appealing compilation of cultural marvels, captured by the perceptive eye of a British journalist & travel writer. Stopping off in ten vastly different societies around the world, Eric Stein delves into the astonishing achievements of..."
Permalink
"In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of...
"My first experience of Tracy Chevalier’s work and it certainly will not be my last.
Ostensibly a historical novel, but one that soon reveals itself to be outrageously and compellingly romantic. It’s exhaustively researched, rich in both cultural a..."
Permalink
