Title: BirdsongAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
Publication Date: 1993
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
Rating: 1/5
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I started reading Birdsong on a night I couldn't fall asleep. I'd been going through A.S. Byatt's Possession and for whatever reason(s) I just didn't want to keep going. It had been awhile since I'd read anything like historical fiction even though it's a genre of which I'm quite fond.
Since I was using my e-reader at the time, I decided to go through all of the historical fiction sections they had on offer. I'd not thought of WWI fiction at all. I am a huge fan (which sounds incredibly inappropriate considering the ocean of human suffering) of WWI-era poetry. I even designed a lesson plan for my DH to use in his history courses comparing or contrasting Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" to Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est". And as a Tolkien fan, I often contemplate the effects of war upon his writing.
