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Finding Emilie (2011)

by Laurel Corona(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1439197660 (ISBN13: 9781439197660)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: Austen meets Disney in 18th century France! No singing critters or cutlery, but there is a small monkey and a pink orchid mantis, plus guest appearances by Voltaire and a French version of My Little Pony! WILL our sister-girls find true love and make happy marriages despite evil witches and predatory cads, etc? What do you think? Not sure why it isn't classified YA, although it would need some whittling down no doubt. Which would be good. It bogs down a bit in its ample midsection. Bonus: if you ever wondered how women maneuvered in dresses with panniers (those substantial hip bustles that look like personal side tables) here's your chance to find out.
review 2: The amount of philosophical and scientific information and actual life of Emilie Du Chalet in this ... morebook is scarcely more than that in the liner notes. The amount of insight into the French 18th century would not fill a thimble. There were no surprising facts. What is left is a pleasant, feel-good story of two girls growing up together. Because of the tenor of the times and the controlling presence of the church women's lives were circumscribed. Our heroine, like her dead mother, chafes under this pressure to conform. Because of that it is also a book on women's issues. A quote from Emilie the brilliant and rebellious mother. "Judge me for my own merits, or lack of them, but do not look upon me as a mere appendage to this great general or that great scholar, this star that shines at the court of France or that famed author. I am in my own right a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that I say, all that I do." I do not think this book was written for young adults but I would recommend it for middle-schoolers and up if the idea of an affair does not offend them. It will be easily accessible. It is not literature. less

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