Company of Liars by Karen Maitland by Gavin Bailey

Company of Liars is a well written historical novel set at the time of the Great Plague in Europe, 1348. The disease has just reached the shores of England and the populace are starting to panic as it spreads across the country, sparing no-one. Although this is the background, the tale essentially

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Wondering Why We Bother to Read Books by Joseph Langen

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.~Sir Francis Bacon I recently got to thinking about why readers read. I woke up early one morning trying to recall the exact words of Sir Francis Bacon's statement which I first encountered in high school.

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