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annemariewhelehan's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.0
This was an interesting title that I was given a free digital copy of from William Collins via @netgalley.
I also bought the audio file as it was quite a heavy read, so it was nice to have both formats.
This is not my natural reading genre, but I did think it would be interesting as it is always interesting to hear the history of something we use today.
I was quite overwhelmed by all the details, it was definitely too much for me but at the same time, I was so impressed by detail. So much work must go into getting the details.
I was also in awe of the pioneers who discovered the various insects, how much brain power they must have needed to come up with the conclusions to their experiments.
I'm also in awe of how many uses of silk we have today - all of these uses were brand new to me.
I would've been more interested to hear more about the industrialisation of silk manufacturing and more about the fabric uses we have today - but that is just where my interests are, it shouldn't take away from immense piece of work that this book is.
I also bought the audio file as it was quite a heavy read, so it was nice to have both formats.
This is not my natural reading genre, but I did think it would be interesting as it is always interesting to hear the history of something we use today.
I was quite overwhelmed by all the details, it was definitely too much for me but at the same time, I was so impressed by detail. So much work must go into getting the details.
I was also in awe of the pioneers who discovered the various insects, how much brain power they must have needed to come up with the conclusions to their experiments.
I'm also in awe of how many uses of silk we have today - all of these uses were brand new to me.
I would've been more interested to hear more about the industrialisation of silk manufacturing and more about the fabric uses we have today - but that is just where my interests are, it shouldn't take away from immense piece of work that this book is.
eleanor_gravestock's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Very interesting content.
valerixia's review
Interesting, but really only about colonialism and moths, little about the fashion or uses of silk apart from in asides. The arrowproof stuff was I teresing but it's presented as an aside from the rest of the chapters.
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