Tiffany girl, book #79

I can't believe I actually finished this book as fast as I did.  Remember me telling you it was thick book?  Yep, 544 pages!  I figured it would take me a good two weeks, but sure enough it was still a week.  I am still not entirely sure how that happened. 

See, 544 pages is a lot to read.  And there were boatloads of big words and descriptive words used for things relevant to the 1890s.  (Made me wish I was reading it on my Paperwhite once again!) But, despite all the details it really is a good story and that is what helped me move along so quickly.

I can already hear what my book club buddies are going to say about it.  "It was a good story, but I couldn't get to it because there were TOO MANY DETAILS!! Who cares about all the intricacies of their clothes or the surroundings!!"  But as always, I'm going to have to stick to my guns and say I LOVE DETAILS!!! To me it just makes the story come alive!  Even if I didn't know half the words used in the descriptions I could use context clues or just make up what I thought it meant.  And with the details, I could not only read the story, but I could SEE the story, I could SMELL the story, I could HEAR the story.  I could EXPERIENCE the story with them!!

As preparations for the 1893 World’s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany—heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire—seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which the world has never seen. But when Louis’s dream is threatened by a glassworkers’ strike months before the Fair opens, he turns to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at the Art Students League of New York. Eager for adventure, the young women pick up their skirts, move to boarding houses, take up steel cutters, and assume new identities as the “Tiffany Girls.”
Tiffany Girl is the heartwarming story of the impetuous Flossie Jayne, a beautiful, budding artist who is handpicked by Louis to help complete the Tiffany chapel. Though excited to live in a boarding house when most women stayed home, she quickly finds the world is less welcoming than anticipated. From a Casanova male, to an unconventional married couple, and a condescending singing master, she takes on a colorful cast of characters to transform the boarding house into a home while racing to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world. As challenges mount, her ambitions become threatened from an unexpected quarter: her own heart. Who will claim victory? Her dreams or the captivating boarder next door?  (picture and description from amazon)

Up next? Probably time to move on to the pile under my nightstand  and start on a pioneer book!!  

Keep reading!

O:)
Melissa