Top 4 books dealing with disease to read while on social isolation from shop-books.ca/blog
I've been taking a 3 pronged approach to the current Covid situation or as I like to call it, the time of weirdness.
Firstly, I've been trying to see positive outcomes that may arise from social isolation or global awakening, if not now then later, in my social posts on Facebook for example.
Secondly, I've been trying to put a humorous or lighter spin on the situation; mostly in person with friends and family.
Thirdly, I've been freaking out.
This list hopefully utilizes the second approach (with a dash of the third).
In no particular order (and note that these are books I've actually read so that's why there are 4):
Is this book about disease or a country suffering under occupation or the human race rebelling against an absurd universe? How about all three at the same time. Camus' spare style might have understated the situation but actually makes the novel thicken with tension as the plague spreads and poor Dr. Rieux gets little help.
Humanity has been nearly wiped out by a pandemic and the few survivors now have to also face real demons...what's next murder hornets...oh wait...
The title might be a pun as the word cholera in Spanish can be used to mean rage so against a backdrop of strife and disease, do the main characters come to believe that it is love or death that conquers all. My money is on the latter.
A plague of blindness is unleashed in a city and social disorder follows as several characters try to survive the public's panic and the government's repressive and inept measures. Minus the widespread panic, does this sound familiar?
Further contenders that I have not read:
The Children of Men by P.D. James
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Station Eleven by Emily St. John
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
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