A review by firerosearien
To Calais, in Ordinary Time, by James Meek
4.0
I really enjoyed this, although reading it while a pandemic is raging about the world might not have been my smartest decision.
There is a very, very clever use of language here that feels true to the time period. The plot doesn't have a ton of sudden reveals, and you can more or less guess at what is going to happen from page one - although it does take the Black Death some time to appear.
The book was written before COVID was a pandemic, but a lot of people will be like to compare the two.
There is a very, very clever use of language here that feels true to the time period. The plot doesn't have a ton of sudden reveals, and you can more or less guess at what is going to happen from page one - although it does take the Black Death some time to appear.
The book was written before COVID was a pandemic, but a lot of people will be like to compare the two.