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El Movimiento De Las Estrellas (2013)

by Amy Brill(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Alianza editorial

review 1: I thought this book was boring, and quit reading after about 50 pages. it is set in the 1840s I think, and was incredibly slow and focused on rules for a Quaker-type community. I thought it would be good, about a smart woman struggling to show her brains, but it was too restricted for me. Several people said it helped to have an interest in astronomy, and I do, that's why I picked it up, but the pace never picked up and I couldn't care about the characters.
review 2: A book like this comes along once in a blue moon! Based on the life of the woman astrologer Maria Mitchell who was born and raised on Nantucket Island, Brill weaves a tale that is just captivating from the first word on. The story centers around Hannah a woman fascinated with the stars and use... mores early star-gazing instruments to discover a comet. But the character Hannah is part of the larger picture of her tight-knit Quaker community and the issue of where does discovery end and judgment begin? Hannah falls in love with a whaler named Isaac who is from the distant Azores. It is a love story that raises the issue of race in a time (mid-19th century) when the Abolitionist movement in New England was at its apex. With Brill's writing the island itself comes alive in one's mind and my memories of it were brought back to me so clearly. less

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