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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.
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)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

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

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

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”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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