StillILearn
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by Myla Goldberg.
Has anybody else read this book? It's going to be (or is) about the hugely devastating Spanish flu epedemic of 1918 -- an epidemic that's in the news right now because of its similarity to the avian flu that's currently threatening the planet's population.
Something like five million people died in the 1918 epidemic, so this could be a interesting and timely (if not downright terrifying) novel. However! Being a reader first and foremost, my real question is: how good a writer is Myla Goldberg? I read Bee Season so long ago that I can hardly remember it. It isn't too late for me to take this book back and exchange it for something else.
(After reading EL&IC, I'm going to be extremely picky and incredibly spoliled.)
Has anybody else read this book? It's going to be (or is) about the hugely devastating Spanish flu epedemic of 1918 -- an epidemic that's in the news right now because of its similarity to the avian flu that's currently threatening the planet's population.
Something like five million people died in the 1918 epidemic, so this could be a interesting and timely (if not downright terrifying) novel. However! Being a reader first and foremost, my real question is: how good a writer is Myla Goldberg? I read Bee Season so long ago that I can hardly remember it. It isn't too late for me to take this book back and exchange it for something else.
(After reading EL&IC, I'm going to be extremely picky and incredibly spoliled.)
