Like other reviewers, I have 2 rankings for this one: 5 stars for the bulk of the book, and 1 star for the ending. *SPOILERS*First, the pluses: I loved the writing, the sense of place and community, the look at their day-to-day lives, and the dread that emerges and increases as the disease spreads. ...
I devoured this book in a day, and would turn back to page one and re-read it if it wasn't mother's day -- moms come first! Based on true events in Eyams, England in 1665-1666, this story about how an isolated village deals with a plague outbreak is completely enveloping. I felt attached to the thre...
Despite Geraldine Brooks' pitiful narration with this audiobook, I enjoyed the writing very much and the story. I'm not going to dock stars on this book because of it, so I'll just say this: Geraldine Brooks should not read her own books and if you ever come across an audiobook read by Ms Brooks, ...
Update: Mar 29/13--I don't know why I did it, but the very fact that I did it (finished this book) was going to lead me to up it to three stars. But now that I've done it I'M TAKING THIS DOWN TO ONE STAR -- HOLY MOLY AND GOLLY GEE WILLIKERS BUT I AM P.O.'d AT THIS BOOK. None of the last 50pp - new ...
Sigh. This could have been so much better. I was interested in the premise and the time period, but it just didn't deliver beyond the first 30-40 pages. Then it just got a bit tedious and much too predictable. It felt like the book was following a soap opera plot line. Something great or positive...
4 1/2 stars. What a wonderful, yet difficult book to read! Geraldine Brooks’ vivid descriptions and excellent use of language from the period put me right in the village with Anna and the rest of the townsfolk. Through Anna’s eyes, I saw the horrors of the plague and felt the heartbreak they end...
Brooks has a beautiful grasp of description that's well-showcased here. I didn't find the last quarter as Hallmark-y as some other reviewers; a tad melodramatic, but ultimately well-rendered. Compare to Willis's Doomsday Book and Eifelheim for somewhat their similar content (plague) and tone.
Absolutely beautiful - if you can call a book about the plague beautiful. Told from the point of view of young Anna Frith, a widow at 18 with 2 young children - this book tells the story of the village of Eyam in the Peak District.Eyam is notable because during the outbreak of the plague this small...
“My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly. I used to wonder if it was so because the memory of Heaven still lived within them, so that in leaving here they do not fear death as we do, who no longer...
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