Flu:The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it by Gina Kolata (get a load of this chick's name....if you like Gina Kolata...)
This book started off very interesting, or maybe it was just fascinating to me because I have an obsession with pandemics and pestilance in general. I always have been interested in these mysterious mass murderers, even as a child I carried around books about the plague. So I loved the telling about the droves of sick folk lining the streets of Boston. However, somewhere in the middle this book got muy muy BORING! It redeemed itself a little at the end, but it was all down hill, and guess what? No cause, no place of origin, it is coming for you one day, beware.
I am very far behind unless I can read 8 books in the next 2 weeks.
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About Me
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- S. Rae Garcia, coffee shop aficionado and aspiring chef, has lived and schooled in Tallahassee for 6 years. Through studying for her Information and Communication degree, and now Culinary Arts, she has spent many hours in Tallahassee coffee shops and lunch joints. A strong advocate of eating and shopping local she plans on following a career that mixes food, people and, yes, lots of coffee.
2 comments:
i remember your strange illness fascination. was it you who got me to read the Plague? (camus)
Probably, I read in in high school, it wasn't nearly plaguey enough. I know, why am I so into disease, and it has to be a big one, no little epidemic will do. Most of Tallahassee's population was wiped out by Yellow Fever in 1841 and I live next to the cemetery where they are buried, I love this town.
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