Book update

[angela_o]

I'm kind of a sucker for parallel timeline stories, so this one worked for me. #45 is The Plague Tales by Ann Benson. Parallel stories of a medieval Jewish doctor during the plague years and a doctor from an indeterminate, but not far in the future America who travels to England and inadvertantly digs up a sample of that same medieval plague strain. In this future, massive unnamed disease outbreaks have caused a reordering of global societies. I liked the book overall, but found the medieval sections to be much more engrossing.

Speaking of medieval, I was at a fanfic site obviously frequented by the very young and saw a story summary wherein the author used "midevil" to describe the period. Made me literally laugh out loud.

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[angela-o.livejournal.com]

My library only has The Painter by Will Davenport and I've read that one already. They do have Labyrinth though, so I placed a hold on it.