Item
Zoom Book Club
Title (Dublin Core)
Zoom Book Club
Description (Dublin Core)
The last time my book club met in person, March 2020, we talked about what we would read next. I noted that I had a few books about pandemics already on my shelves and we should read one of those. Camus' "The Plague", "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" by Katherine Anne Porter, "Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe, "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez... why did I have so many books about plagues...?
We decided on Defoe and I said "Well, maybe we will be meeting by Zoom next time." The group was incredulous (I live in a small rural town in South Dakota) that we wouldn't be able to meet in person in April. If I had read this book in non-plaugue times it certainly would have been good read but it took on a lot of added meaning when I read it at the beginning of the quarantine. Thermometers may change but people never change.
We decided on Defoe and I said "Well, maybe we will be meeting by Zoom next time." The group was incredulous (I live in a small rural town in South Dakota) that we wouldn't be able to meet in person in April. If I had read this book in non-plaugue times it certainly would have been good read but it took on a lot of added meaning when I read it at the beginning of the quarantine. Thermometers may change but people never change.
This is a photograph of my night stand the month my book club was reading Journal of a Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Date (Dublin Core)
April 16, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Kelly Thompson
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kelly Thompson
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph and Text Story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Emotion
English
Social Distance
English
Rural
English
Recreation & Leisure
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
book club
Zoom
South Dakota
rural voice
reading
The Plague
Camus
Pale Horse Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
meaning
significance
quarantine
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Zoom book club
Journal of the plague year
people never change
Collection (Dublin Core)
Rural Voices
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
9/1/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
9/5/2020
10/24/2020
08/02/2022
09/23/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/16/2020
This item was submitted on September 1, 2020 by Kelly Thompson using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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