The Plague

Translated from Albert Camus' french, I chose this title to commemorate the raging fear that was going on at the time in our own city as Ebola was diagnosed for the first time on US soil right near us.  Things got a little crazy here, but thankfully not as bad as they did for the little city in Camus' novel.

We met at Becky's and enjoyed a meal homemade butternut squash ravioli.  There was a raging fire in the fireplace, and good discussion as always.

We all had a little trouble keeping the many characters straight in our minds

We wondered throughout the book who the narrator might be

The interesting responses of the town preacher in the book as contrasted against the town doctor

We noticed a lack of female presence in the book

I don't think it was anyone's favorite book by far, but it did make us think