My sister sent along some books and one of them was a sequel to Ship Fever. Since I can't stand reading the second book in a series, I borrowed Ship Fever from the library and read it yesterday and today. If you need a break from genre fiction, give this award-winning collection of short stories a try.

I was really impressed with Andrea Barrett's plotting and characterization skills, and can only imagine how much time went into crafting and researching the stories, most of which either were set historically around scientists or referred to past events. Stories like these can take as long to write as novels, and are just as rewarding to read, in my opinion. Ship Fever itself is a novella at the end of the book set during the time of the Irish Famine, and focuses on what happened in Canada as the ill immigrants arrived there. Wonderful, sad yet hopeful story and left me wanting to know more. It's amazing that any of the Irish survived, to have descendants like, well, me.

If you're curious to see what I'm reading, I list most of my reads on www.goodreads.com. Click the link below to see information about Ship Fever and I'm listed as Heather Hiestand if you want to friend me there.

Ship Fever

 

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