Before I forget...

I read Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures last week (?) - had to kind of rush through it, because I needed to have it back to the library by c.o.b. Friday (finished it around 1:45, on the T).  Liked it.  The writing was decent, and the story was interesting - although then I found out it was based on real people, and semi-real events, so I'm not sure how much credit Chevalier can get for the story.  But the suggested reading list she supplied at the end of the novel was nice, because I would like to go and read more at some point about Mary Anning, the working-class girl in 19th century Lyme Regis who was a prominent fossil "hunter."