the physick book of deliverance dane review

For a Harvard student, Connie seemed kind of dumb. The leads me to another point: Howe’s characters in the present.

I liked the historical bits, but I wish there had been more of them, and more character development. The prose is overwrought and occasionally makes no sense: (“It carried away a charred layer of skin from Connie’s fingers, coils of smoke drifting up from her hands as she squinted her eyes against the overweening consciousness of pain” (p. After all, the book is the lynchpin of the novel, right? SPOILER ALERT: I wish that the author had chosen to describe Connie’s moment of discovering the book, rather than her just telling her mother (who doesn’t care, anyways) later. The plot forces the reader to suspend their sense of disbelief. The author is working on her PhD, and the novel reads like it’s written by someone working on their PhD Howe tends to pontificate a lot about various aspects of early American life. Although somewhat predictable, I found myself reading this book way past where I told myself I’d leave off. The good: this book was a real page-turner. The novel is punctuated by little scenes from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, detailing the journey of Deliverance’s book.

Connie then finds herself searching for Deliverance’s book of physick. A summer trip takes Connie to her grandmother’s dilapidated cottage to fix the place up in order to be sold, and she finds a scrap of paper with Deliverance Dane’s name on it. I’m leaning toward’s Meat Loaf’s autobiography, because it has been a while since I read an autobiography, so it would be a nice change.Connie Goodwin is a graduate student recently promoted to candidacy, when she is exhorted by her advisor to find her primary source for her thesis. To Hell and Back – An Autobiography by Meat Loaf with David Dalton (Signed by Meat Loaf!) Gone by Mo Hayder (won from Transworld Publishers)

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (Signed by Sir Terry, complete with Ankh-Morpork postmark!) So what book will I start next? I’m not sure, to be honest! I have a whole pile of books to be read, but I think my next book is going to be one of the following three: It was an interesting read and my review will be up shortly. The story centres on the Salam Witch Trials and Harvard graduate student Connie’s search for information on Deliverance Dane after finding her name on parchment in a bible that had belonged to her grandmother, and then her subsequent quest for Deliverance’s Physick Book. Last night, I stopped up late to finish reading The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe.

The physick book of deliverance dane review