DMPL Book Chat discussion

See which books staff read for this challenge below. If you've completed this challenge, let us know which book you read and what you thought about it! Also, don't forget to register for the 2022 Reading Challenge at dmpl.org/readingchallenge.

I read The Orphan Collector which is set during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918/1919. Very interesting compared to our current pandemic.

I read Band of Sisters. It's set in WWI. A group of women from Smith College go to France in 1917 and help villagers near the front line.

I read The Orphan Collector set during the Spanish Flu. I loved this book! It took a little while to get into it and was very sad to read at times, but the back half of the book and the ending are amazing! I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good historical fiction book.

I read "To Paradise" by Hanya Yanagihara. It spans 200 hundred years starting in 1893. While not traditional historical fiction - it is more speculative fiction - it is really well done.