"People of The Book" is a book worth reading. My friend Wendy lent it to me. I know because she wrote her name in the front of the book. I found the book on the table beside my reading chair in the bedroom, here in Nova Scotia. It is a wonderful place to read, with windows on two sides giving me early light and the sound of the sea as a background, leaving me a perfect spot for morning reading. On top of that, Ken brings me coffee to my chair each morning, so sometimes I come downstairs at noon, having missed breakfast.
Geraldine Brooks is a fine writer and I enjoyed the book. Everyone else read it a few years ago, but I was happy to read it now. It encompasses a five hundred year period in the life of a book and although this book is fiction, it delves into much historical data, so you learn a lot of what was happening way back when in Spain and Venice and Bosnia. She bounces around many many people so you must have your brain in gear to keep track of the players, but it is worthwhile and informative and engrossing, which I suspect is all you can expect from a writer. Now I have passed on the book to Mary McD. who will in turn give it to Mary M. before returning the book to Wendy. Thank you to Wendy to lending me this fine book.
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