A review by angus_mckeogh
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

3.0

Paraphrasing: those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. Figured I’d go through this book during our present crisis. It’s pretty fascinating how certain things mirror exactly what is taking place currently. Namely the public’s insistence on returning to “normal” too early and suffering a backlash. However, the style is a bit like reading actuarial tables and documents mixed with personal stories of hearsay, as opposed to a narrative “journal” of someone living during The Black Death.