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cate_ninetails 's review for:
A Single Thread
by Tracy Chevalier
I suppose that it is my own fault for imagining that a book about embroidery would be nonstop entertainment, but admittedly I was interested in the historical aspects. Put simply I found this book to be a little boring. The author is very detailed even about trivial events and sometimes I felt that I was simply reading Wikipedia vomited up on the page, some of the conversations are just overtly used for this purpose so don't flow naturally at all. Violet is a low-key feminist that I want to cheer for but she's written in a very unlikeable way so I never much enjoyed her inner voice or decision making. For whatever reason on the whole this book was just too nebulous for me and I really got no sense that this was a story that needed telling as it seemed more like several stitched together ideas.