Journal of the Plague Year | 
My #BookedInTime plans include the tagged book and three nonfiction for 17th century Britain. I'm starting off with a time travel, historical fiction set in multiple centuries: The Outcast Of Time. I thought it fit the overall theme really well. @Cuilin
This may serve a little to describe the dreadful Condition of that Day, tho' it is impossible to say any Thing that is able to give a true Idea of it to those who did not see it, other than this; that it was indeed very, very, very dreadful, and such as no Tongue can express.
Look what I just remembered I had a copy of....
A great blend of fiction and history. It‘s been years since I read this one, but I‘m a sucker for anything that involves the plague. #fever #movember
pickI read this slowly over a period of months and enjoyed it quite a bit. A strange combo of fact and fiction from the early days of the modern novel, it‘s close to a first-hand account of the 1665 plague in London. One year later the whole place burned down so I guess we need to keep the calamities of the early 21st century in perspective. I love these voices out of the past, so different and still so much the same. So grateful for modern medicine.
#weekendreads
1️⃣ Earth Abides and, very slowly, the tagged book
2️⃣ Appointment in Samarra (already finished it!)
3️⃣ Not sure how to answer this one.. it‘s night right now? I don‘t have a particular preference? Other than being an old lady who goes to bed early..
My vacation has officially begun. It‘s not official until I buys some books. I picked up a few for my flight next week and getting a jump on this one. I read it years ago when I was too young to appreciate it so giving it another go.
So now I‘m sitting in a farm, listening to a jazz band, drinking beer and reading between sets.
A cheerful discovery at work today, a list of deaths and diagnoses during the Great Plague which also happens to be my birthday (321 years early). By December the death-rate was beginning to drop but that's still 3880 bubonic plague deaths in one day! ??
NB if anyone is wondering "rising of the lights" is croup.
#riotgrams #nakedhardbacks Journal of the Plague Year is my most interesting hardback cover. The bit of red peaking over the top is the slipcase. Impulse buy from Memphis bookstore a few years back. I have yet to read it 😕
Finally finished this after struggling through it for around 3 months! Unfortunately, i wasn't a fan :'(
I have a lot of orange books, too. #17rainbowbooks #day2 #orangesorotherfruit @jess.how
#orangebooks #photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading #day14 Most of these are only orange in their spine.
