Thinking about history
Hello, I’m gonna try some casual blogging now, where I just add a little blog after a gloomie if I feel like talking about the context or what prompted it.
Today’s gloomie:
was inspired by me listening to Ken Follett’s newest novel (in audiobook form) World Without End. It’s the sequel to Pillars of the Earth, which is also awesome. I listened to it at work a couple months ago. They are both historical fiction, set in the Middle Ages. The second one takes place two hundred years after the first but they’re both about the same town in England, and the lives of some of the citizens.
Now, I like stories where there’s a cast of protagonists, and a cast of antagonists, and the lives of all the characters are interwoven, through family or friendship or whatever, so, these books were awesome for me. The protagonists were independent spirits, innovative and quick thinking, and the antagonist were sneaky, greedy and scrupulous, but all the characters were written with complex and interesting motivations.
Anyway, I recommend checking these books out if you’re looking for a story to get involved with.
-Suzanne
