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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I'm not going to lie, here, this is a slow moving book. There are moments of shattering betrayal and cruelty, but there are far more moments of grueling work, with the brother in the grip of an obsession with the stars and the sister starved for intellectual flight. Yet I found both Lina and the book combine an overarching sweetness and a gritty determination not to be ignored that made it impossible to stop reading. I wanted to know more about her world, her quest, her future. Mesmerizing and lyrical, with the kinds of well written portraiture of place that sets a historical story firmly in the imagination. Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss. Dedicated and brilliant, Caroline Herschel was an accomplished astronomer in her own right. An attack of typhus in her childhood stunted her growth at four feet three inches and left her scarred. Her abusive mother kept her as a household slave. When William, her older brother by 12 years, rescues her from a life of drudgery and takes her to England she keeps house for him while he trains her as both a singer and as his astronomical assistant. Throughout their life together she is devoted to William. When years later William announces his engagement her world falls apart and she is forced to move into her own accommodation. However, whilst William is on honeymoon, Lina discovers a comet, the first of several she would discover throughout her life. Extensively researched and wonderfully told, this is a fabulous read and I have gone on to find out more about it's central character because of it. Much enjoyed, well worth reading. The Stargazer's Sister is a fictionalized telling of the life stories of the gifted composer and astronomer William Herschel and his equally gifted sister, Caroline. Caroline is abused by her mother and later rescued by her brother who takes her under his wing and teaches her his crafts. Throughout her life with William, Caroline lives in William's shadow. When he leaves her alone to go on a wedding trip with his new wife, Caroline's true genius becomes apparent. When William dies, we wonder how Caroline will get by without him, only to discover that her own strengths are enough to carry her through. I highly recommend. The stargazer's sister by Carrie Brown Starts out with Carolina/Leena and her brother William on a ship going towards England from Holland. She is to tend to him and his star experiments. Love that he points out the constellations to her as they travel. Time goes back to 1755 when she was younger and she recalls other good times-the moon that links her and her brother-no matter where they are they are one as each looks at the moon. And bad times when she was deathly sick, but alive, scarred for life...liked hearing the traditions, parades, feasts in Holland. William teaches her much as he's a music teacher and brings in money from teaching others and Leena. Circumstances arise that allow her to travel to London for a week and she fears when she returns she will have not only a new sister in law but a new place for her to stay. Such caring for one another as they accomplish the inconceivable then and after. Devotion. I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right. This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina, as Caroline is known, serves as William's assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife. When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches her world collapse. With her characteristically elegant prose, Carrie Brown creates from history a compelling story that interweaves familial collaboration and conflict with a haunting exploration of the sublime beauty of astronomy and our small but essential place within a vast and astonishing cosmos. Through Lina's trials and successes we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness--a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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William is Caroline's hero and mentor, and the one that saves her from her abusive mother and brother, and potentially from a loveless, painful marriage. She owes him much. As a woman in the 18th Century she is dependent on him for everything. But she thinks intelligently and independently; and knows she is missing another type of life, as wife and mother.
Brown has written an excellent historical fictional story exploring family dynamics, gender roles, religion and G-d, science, the endless demands placed on women, the impact of poverty and wealth, and of course, love. Always love.
Carrie Brown is a brilliant writer. Her novels are star-studded!