Delphi

While I would've absolutely hated this book if I had read it too close to the pandemic, I loved reading it with the appropriate distance. While some might say there's a lack of story line, they might miss the fact that it is in the daily and in the mundane - wonderfully mixed and infused with the main character's research/obsession with prophecy - where the strength of the book is found. How to describe daily life in the pandemic, and do so in a way for a reader to enjoy? How to reflect back on a time that feels depressing for most of us, a time where trust in narratives was gliding and we all needed a sense of security for the future? Stellar job done by Pollard.