scarylady1955 's review for:

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
5.0

I've been to Venice, but reading this book gave me all new insights to that lovely city. Who knew, for example, that it once was actually an island?!? That citizens of Murano did not originally consider themselves Venetians?!? That the "mainland" of Italy was called "terra firma"?!? And, that Murano glass is in a class of its own. Tracy Chevalier has done it again - bringing the history of a beautiful artform to us.