The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, 501 pages
This is the story of Alma, born in the 1800's, who ends up a
brilliant botanist in a time when women were not allowed to do such
things. We get to see Alma from before she was born, really, as the book
begins with a little about her parents and how they met but barely 50 pages
into the book, Alma is born, and the rest of the book centers solely around her
life. Although she was plain, she was brilliant, and in many ways her
life was extraordinary. In other ways, her life was very ordinary.
The book was very good at showing her life as a complete picture. I
thought it was really good and parts of it were fascinating. Someone said
that this book was better than "Eat, Pray, Love", but now, having
liked this book so much, I feel the need to compare them so I'll have to
go read the other now.
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