Today's Featured Book
An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain
Genre: Fiction
Published: June 22, 2023
Page Count: 235 pages
Summary:
"In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, real-life astronomer to King Louis XV, sets out for the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough and his quest may be more complicated than initially thought.
250 years later, estate agent Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume’s telescope in a property he's sold. As he looks out across the rooftops of Paris, he discovers an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment.
Then the woman walks through the doors of his office, and his life changes forever...."
"On the twenty-sixth of March 1760, Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de La Galaisiere, astronomer to the Academie Royale des Sciences, boarded the fifty-gun ship Le Berryer in the French port of Lorient, bound for India."
"Xavier looked again as soon as he woke up the next morning. The dark-haired woman's window was ajar, and there was no zebra in the apartment."
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July 7th - 13th - Which character do you identify with and why? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
I've always felt like some odd combination of Maria from The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins from the book of the same name, and Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time.
How about you? What character(s) do you identify with?
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