Post by adcooper on Sept 15, 2010 20:15:39 GMT -5
I'm reading Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks. She just won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for lifetime achievement, so I thought I'd better check out some of her work. This one is a historical novel about the Plague in England, mid-17th Century. (I know! Of all the recreational reading in all the library...I have to read about the plague. 
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She tells a good story and I'm reading it quickly. I'd picked up another of her titles, People of the Book, but only gave it a couple of pages, not just loving the narrator's voice in that one. But this is different.
It's based on a real place in Derbyshire--Eyam, also known as the Plague Village. People there largely agreed to isolate themselves to slow spread of the disease. This book imagines what that meant for them, and it's very believable.
Anyone else read this one? Bara, ever been to Derbyshire?
)She tells a good story and I'm reading it quickly. I'd picked up another of her titles, People of the Book, but only gave it a couple of pages, not just loving the narrator's voice in that one. But this is different.
It's based on a real place in Derbyshire--Eyam, also known as the Plague Village. People there largely agreed to isolate themselves to slow spread of the disease. This book imagines what that meant for them, and it's very believable.
Anyone else read this one? Bara, ever been to Derbyshire?
I DID have problems in Kentucky...
