I am slow going on this challenge because I‘m also reading other books not on the list ( Bookclubs, buddy reads, sister said I had to drop everything and read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans), but I did finish the first of my #14BooksIn14Weeks
This is a lovely debut novel about a midwife & herbalist in Avignon, France during the 1300s black plague.
I‘m finding myself drawn to midwives and herbalists …
Enjoying this book from a debut author I met at Adventures By The Book Superbook 6 in San Diego in March.
A Healer & Herbalist trying to protect her people of Avignon, France from the 1437 Black Plague Provence.
I am finding I love books about Female Healers, Herbalists, & Midwives
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Here‘s my hopeful #14booksin14weeks ! Starting with Eleanore and Gabriële
pickI read books about diseases frequently but still learned things from this book geared towards kids.
so-soLOVED reading about the small village being ravaged by the plague and the difficult decision to close their gates and quarantine themselves from the rest of Derbyshire. The story is based on a real village Eyam and how they handled the Bubonic Plague in 1665-1666.
But oh how I hated the ending. The last 50 pages or so made me mad because they ruined an otherwise beautiful book.
Beginning=5 stars, Ending=2 stars. So overall a So-So from me.
pickI loved this. Set in France when the pope was in Avignon, during a plague, a young woman tries to increase her medical knowledge while also not being turned into a scapegoat. Highly recommend.
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Memory is like a cat. It comes and wraps itself around you when you least desire it, and the moment you seek it out, it disappears. (Pg 194)
pickEleanore is a herbalist who dreams of more and manages to get an assistantship with the pope‘s doctor when he learns of her skill. Then the black plague arrives in Avignon, putting both of them to the test. I enjoyed this, though I found the doctor‘s name (Guigo) odd and it threw me off at times.
