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FROM: "Connie Jo Ozinga" <cjo@SELCO.LIB.MN.US>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 11:40 AM

>One to add that hasn't been mentioned yet:
>Burning Road by Ann Benson
> The sequel to The Plaque Tales, this book also has chapters that
alternate between the 1300s and the year 2007. Excellent characters and
great storylines in both centurys. I believe she's planning a third book as
well.
>

I just read these two books on the recommendations from this list and loved
them. In an interesting juxtaposition, the next book I read was Michael
Crichton's new book , Timeline, set in roughly the same time and place,
though nowhere near as "plaquey". The experience sent me back to the
stacks to check out and reread Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror a
nonfiction bestseller back in my early days in readers advisory, and Connie
Willis' Doomsday book, another all time favorite.

A nice small group of books tied together by a common time and place and
the spectre of the plaque. Anything else you can add to this list?

Connie


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FROM: "Anjan Ray" <anjan_ray@usa.net>
REC'D: 12/11/99, 3:41 AM

I would venture to add the following :

The Plague : Albert Camus (Scary)
The Plague Dogs : Richard Adams (outstanding!)


Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:44:12 -0600
From: Connie Jo Ozinga <cjo@SELCO.LIB.MN.US>


>One to add that hasn't been mentioned yet:
>Burning Road by Ann Benson
> The sequel to The Plaque Tales, this book also has chapters that
alternate between the 1300s and the year 2007. Excellent characters and
great storylines in both centurys. I believe she's planning a third book as
well.
>

I just read these two books on the recommendations from this list and loved
them. In an interesting juxtaposition, the next book I read was Michael
Crichton's new book , Timeline, set in roughly the same time and place,
though nowhere near as "plaquey". The experience sent me back to the
stacks to check out and reread Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror a
nonfiction bestseller back in my early days in readers advisory, and Connie
Willis' Doomsday book, another all time favorite.

A nice small group of books tied together by a common time and place and
the spectre of the plaque. Anything else you can add to this list?

Connie


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FROM: "Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX" <vickinovak@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 12/13/99, 6:45 PM

Also add A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley and In Pursuit of the
Green Lion by the same author. If I remember correctly, the plague is not
as prominent as in the other books you mention, but it does play a part.

Vicki Novak
North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032-1201

vickinovak@mail.maricopa.gov

FROM: "Lynda Williams" <lyndaw@netcom.com>
REC'D: 12/14/99, 8:45 PM

Jill Paton Walsh wrote a book called. I believe, either a Packet or
Parcel of Patterns. It reminded me a lot of Connie Willis's Domesday
Book without the SF trappings. The story is about how the plague comes to
a small village dispite the inhabitants best efforts to isolate
themselves. It is based on an actual historical event and as in the
Domesday Book, you come to care about the characters as they strive to
protect themselves when no protection is available.

Lynda Williams
Union City Branch
Alameda County Library

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