A review by chelsea_not_chels
Bluebird, or The Invention of Happiness by Sheila Kohler
3.0
2020 reading challenge category: A book with a bird on the cover
Basically a fictionalized biography; nice, but there's a LOT going on in the background here that I feel like could have actually made the book a lot more interesting if it had been more fully incorporated instead of just having it as background at the beginning of each chapter. I studied the French Revolution in school (and actually wrote my thesis on it) so I think I had a lot more context as to what was happening and why it was interesting and important and affected these people so intensely.
Also there was a lot time spent on the ship, more proportionally than it was important to the story, I think.
Basically a fictionalized biography; nice, but there's a LOT going on in the background here that I feel like could have actually made the book a lot more interesting if it had been more fully incorporated instead of just having it as background at the beginning of each chapter. I studied the French Revolution in school (and actually wrote my thesis on it) so I think I had a lot more context as to what was happening and why it was interesting and important and affected these people so intensely.
Also there was a lot time spent on the ship, more proportionally than it was important to the story, I think.