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July 31, 2008
Book
I left my fiction at work and it is a tragedy! I started "Year of Wonders" today. I've wanted to read it since I happened upon a Geraldine Brooks reading at Powells in 2001, the year it came out.
I was vaguely interested in Brooks because of her marriage to Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, Pulitzer-prize winning former Wall Street Journal reporter, and one-time resident of Waterford, Virginia.
I learned, when she spoke at Powells, that Brooks is also a former Wall Street Journal reporter and she is Australian-American. Then she started describing the book: historical fiction about an isolated English community that, when devastated by the plague in 1666, chooses voluntary quarantine to limit the spread of the disease. Then she started reading, and I knew I had to get the book.
Seven years later, Brooks has her own Pulitzer - this one for fiction - to complement her husband's. I saw the winning book, "March," on display at a bookstore yesterday and I decided to finally track down "Year of Wonders."
I started it on my lunch break today, and I'm glad that I finally found this book. It is beautiful. I want to devour it. I want to know what happens next. I want to enjoy it. I left it at work.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at July 31, 2008 10:46 PM