You know Jayne's gotta be happy because this episode is jam packed with historical fiction! Paula breaks her habit of only reading books set in the modern era with not one, not two, but three of her reads this month. Find out how the ladies think the bubonic plague epidemic compares to our current COVID-19 situation when they discuss Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. As always, you'll get the goss on the books everyone's talking about this month.
Books they mention:
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
The Spill by Imbi Neeme
Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Ickabog by JK Rowling
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Stranger Country by Monica Tan
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Motion of Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson
Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford
Links:
Register for our Library Through the Lens webinar with Imbi Neeme, author of The Spill:
https://www.facebook.com/events/304094390584152/
Recording of our Library Through the Lens book talk with Pip Williams, author of Dictionary of Lost Words:
https://tinyurl.com/yaqtq27s
Sign up for our Library Loop eNewsletter to see other book reviews (including Suman's) and more:
https://tinyurl.com/ydbnoar3
Our book for next month is My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams. Happy reading!