Episode 19 - Year Of Wonders

You know Jayne's gotta be happy because this episode is jam packed with historical fiction! Paula breaks her habit of only reading books set in the modern era with not one, not two, but three of her reads this month. Find out how the ladies think the bubonic plague epidemic compares to our current COVID-19 situation when they discuss Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. As always, you'll get the goss on the books everyone's talking about this month. Books they mention: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld The Spill by Imbi Neeme Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams The Ickabog by JK Rowling Normal People by Sally Rooney Stranger Country by Monica Tan The Weekend by Charlotte Wood The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel The Motion of Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver Bad Blood by John Carreyrou The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford Links: Register for our Library Through the Lens webinar with Imbi Neeme, author of The Spill: https://www.facebook.com/events/304094390584152/ Recording of our Library Through the Lens book talk with Pip Williams, author of Dictionary of Lost Words: https://tinyurl.com/yaqtq27s Sign up for our Library Loop eNewsletter to see other book reviews (including Suman's) and more: https://tinyurl.com/ydbnoar3 Our book for next month is My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams. Happy reading!