Book #13 - The Lady and the Unicorn

I enjoyed Girl with a Pearl Earring enough that I thought I'd read another book by Tracy Chevalier, and wasn't disappointed. Like Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Lady and the Unicorn was a fast read, but still richly detailed. The chapters focusing on the family of weavers who made the famous tapestries were very interesting, as I know absolutely nothing about the process of weaving, and discovered there was far more to it than I ever would have thought. The "main" character (if there can be said to be merely one) is a little hard to sympathize with - the arrogant, womanizing artist who painted the originals of the tapestries - I just don't fall for that sort of guy and it annoys me to "see" other women doing so.

But the story, of course, is not his; it's about the tapestries and their evolution, the reasoning behind what is present and what is not, the meaning of the bits of symbolism and the expressions of the Ladies, all woven together as smoothly as the tapestries themselves so the reader can't help but think, "Of course. This must be how it happened."

Title: The Lady and the Unicorn
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Pages: 248 (paperback)

13 / 50 books. 26% done!

Book #13 - The Lady and the Unicorn

I enjoyed Girl with a Pearl Earring enough that I thought I'd read another book by Tracy Chevalier, and wasn't disappointed. Like Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Lady and the Unicorn was a fast read, but still richly detailed. The chapters focusing on the family of weavers who made the famous tapestries were very interesting, as I know absolutely nothing about the process of weaving, and discovered there was far more to it than I ever would have thought. The "main" character (if there can be said to be merely one) is a little hard to sympathize with - the arrogant, womanizing artist who painted the originals of the tapestries - I just don't fall for that sort of guy and it annoys me to "see" other women doing so.

But the story, of course, is not his; it's about the tapestries and their evolution, the reasoning behind what is present and what is not, the meaning of the bits of symbolism and the expressions of the Ladies, all woven together as smoothly as the tapestries themselves so the reader can't help but think, "Of course. This must be how it happened."

Title: The Lady and the Unicorn
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Pages: 248 (paperback)

13 / 50 books. 26% done!