Previous Updates: Antonine Plague Bubonic Plague Dancing Plague Small Pox Syphilis, Tuberculosis, and Cholera Leprosy, Typhoid, and Spanish Flu Encephalitis Lethargica There is still no cure for EL, and its rise and subsequent disappearance is still regarded as something of a myste...
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright See Also: Reading Updates for Get Well Soon A humorous book about history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and the heroes who fought them In 1518, in a small town in France,...
I finally finished this one. The delay was a combination of being on holiday, and needing to put some space between my experience of this book and the experience of others, as I was starting to feel like I was losing my objectivity regarding my feelings about this book. So, my feelings: Get Well ...
Since I came so late to the party with this one, I knew enough from other people's updates that I needed to adjust my expectations somewhat. This wasn't a survey of plagues over the centuries with discussions of symptoms, causes, and societal effects of various contagious diseases. It was a chattier...
In substance, I don't really have a whole lot to add to my one ill-humored status update on this book. This is the book-form equivalent of a cross-breed between tabloid journalism and a series of superficial, but opinionated and self-centered blog posts: short on bonafide science, history, and rese...
I waited to write this review because I wanted to sit with this book and gather my thoughts (and take in others' thoughts about the book). I listened to the book and I have to say part of my enjoyment came from the tone/voice work of the narrator, Gabra Zackman. I began reading the book as if it ...
TITLE: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them AUTHOR: Jennifer Wright DATE PUBLISHED: 2017 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781627797467 _____________________________ DESCRIPTION: "A humorous book about history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to lep...
This was good! I wasn't sure at the start, because it's pretty clear the author geared her narrative towards women (or men, but really, women) who were battling their way through breakups while reading this book. But it's easy to get past that and just enjoy the history and the wry humour. And om...
See this and all of my reviews at Mystereity ReviewsGet Well Soon isn't so much a historical book about plagues, it's also about the human side of plagues; the healers, the sufferers and the people left behind. The book details not only catastrophic plagues like The Black Death, but also some of the...
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