Release Date: July 24, 2008
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin is one of the most engaging books I’ve read in a long time. From the first twenty pages I knew this was going to be a book I was going to want to read slowly, soaking in all of the details.
Lilly Nelly Aphrodite was born in the final moments of the nineteenth century in Germany. The book follows her life from a Catholic orphanage in Berlin and brings to life in fine detail her life over the course of the next thirty four years.
Poor Lilly constantly struggles with love, employment, poverty, and friendships while Germany struggles with it’s own problems. Lilly’s sweet innocence is eclipsed by the harsh world she lives in. Not having any family to help her out of difficult situations, she always finds a way to solve her problems, and maintains a long term, but sporadic friendship with another orphaned girl throughout the book.
I felt the first three hundred pages of this book were very well written, but the last quarter of the book becomes almost of summary of success mirrored by tragedy, written more as an accounting of events rather than a story. Regardless, the entire book is very well written.
Overall, this should be a very enjoyable book for readers who enjoy historical fiction, especially early twentieth century Germany, or for fans of the cinema, as much of this book revolves around the cinema.
Monday, July 14, 2008
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
Posted by A Writer's Pen at 7/14/2008 01:18:00 AM
Tags: acting, cinema, film, film making, germany, orphan, poverty
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2 comments:
Hmm sounds interesting. I'll add it to my TBR list, thanks :)
I loved this book and could hardly rest until I had finished it. I then wanted more but the Glimmer Palace and the Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite appear to be identical.
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