Covid Lockdown Reading

[xoggoth]

The Masque of the Red Death, Short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Used to like Poe but not read any for decades. Reading "Spike, an Intimate Memoir" - Biography of Spike Milligan. Shows what an old fart I am.

[darmstadt]

Although a classroom text, this is quite interesting: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...ion/plague.pdf

IBM used to produce all their documentation and provide it in an online format which you could install on your PC, part of that was a number of books from the Gutenberg Project which helped to while away the time when a long compile was running. This is one of those books which I've just found on an old CD copy i have by Daniel Defoe which I started a couple of days ago reading while building a new system:

A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe

[darmstadt]

Rules have changed so this might interest some people: Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

[NotAllThere]

the doomsday book by connie willis which is about a influenza pandemic in the future, a time machine and a bubonic pandemic in the past. i finished it last week. published in 1992 it completely nails the toilet roll panic buying madness but fails to imagine the development of mobile telephony.

Just finished it. Very good. And yes, the toilet roll theme did make me laugh - much needed light relief from some very heavy sections.

[AtW]

Lockdown by Peter May, about to get released