NP: Plague Reading

[Mark Thibodeau]

(huh, huh) What about Stephen King's The Stand? (huh, huh)

Too lowbrow? Or just too effing LOOOOONG?

Jerky

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:56 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Much more recent but Station Eleven by Emily St. John (2015) is very good!
>
> “a mysterious Georgian Flu is spreading rapidly and will soon become a
> full-blown pandemic.”
>
> The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in May 2015, beating novels
> including The Girl with All the Gifts and Memory of Water.[16] The
> committee highlighted the novel's focus on the survival of human culture
> after an apocalypse, as opposed to the survival of humanity itself.[16] The
> novel was also a finalist for the National Book Award, ultimately losing to
> Phil Klay's short story cycle Redeployment.[17] It was also a finalist for
> the PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the Baileys Women's Prize for
> Fiction.[18]
>
> The novel won the Toronto Book Award in October 2015.[19]
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven
>
> Becky
>
> > On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:38 AM, RZ <robert.zutphen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > And George R Stewart’s “Earth Abides.”
> >
> >> On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:55 AM, Heikki R <
> situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> And Defoe's haunting & unsentimental "Journal".
> >>
> >> ti 10. maalisk. 2020 klo 17.40 Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com>
> kirjoitti:
> >>
> >>> Though not explicitly plague lit but The Name of the Rose...especially
> as
> >>> Italy succumbs to CoVid-19...
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 10, 2020, at 11:23 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> >>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Albert Camus comes to mind...
> >>>>
> >>>>> Am 10.03.2020 um 16:17 schrieb Smoke Teff:
> >>>>> Using the coronavirus as an excuse to finish The Decameron after
> >>> starting it years ago.
> >>>>> Any other good pandemic lit? All genres and pub dates welcome.
> >>>
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