You may know that I love to read. I mostly read historical fiction, political nonfiction, Michael Crichton, and whatever is on the Bestsellers Lists when I am at the store.
Well, recently I finished The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. This novel is set in the twelfth century England. It is fantastic! The book is long (almost 1,000 pages) but I devoured it in about a week. The story is about a small town which is trying to survive through hard times and war and build a town cathedral.
I walk away from the book with a sense of general life back in history. The amazing thing is that life is basically the same today but with different clothes. The struggles those people endured are the same we see today: love triangles, deception, providing for one's family, money problems, losing loved ones. The only main difference is that peasants lived in fear of starvation in the winter. Weak babies perished without proper nourishment and a dip in the summer harvest could mean death for many. How lucky we are today that we never have to worry about starvation in the winter!
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