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damned_colonial ([personal profile] damned_colonial) wrote in [community profile] readingthepast2009-06-25 04:03 pm
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How's your reading going?

I read "Fever, 1793" for the first time, and re-read "Year of Wonders". I have Hambly's "Fever Season" on request at my library (just coming from another branch, so I should have it in a couple of days), and I'm plugging through the "Journal of the Plague Year" audio book but finding it pretty heavy going. Too. Many. Statistics.

How's your reading going?
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[personal profile] nightmareink 2009-06-25 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Right now I'm working my way through Fever Season and I have Fever, 1793 (along with a book on the outbreak), Year of Wonders, and An Imperfect Lens from the library. I would've started reading earlier, but I needed to get through a couple other library books I had out.

Fever Season is a pretty interesting book. It doesn't just focus on the disease going around, but it also deals with the race issue at that time in New Orleans. It's a pretty engaging mystery. I'm about halfway through it right now.
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