Pocket full of posies....

Friday I was able to finish Don't Open This Book!, a collection of speculative fiction edited by Marvin Kaye. It was... interesting. Some of the stories were quite fascinating, some depressing, some bizarre, some thoughtful, and some downright chilling. Having finished it, I decided to start on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. When I saw this particular edition at Half Price Books I decided to pick it up, being a very nice cloth-bound hardcover featuring woodcut illustrations. I'd heard a lot about the book from Eric, and decided to give it a try. Set in Florence, Italy, during an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the middle of the 14th century, I suspect in might be a little like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in nature.