Book 1 of 2014! What a way to ring in a new reading year! With a solid 5-star book pulled straight out of the TBR jar that I absolutely loved. Apparently this book won both the Hugo and the Nebula back when it was published in 1991. I have no idea how Connie Willis had escaped my notice, but she d...
In the year 2054 a young Oxford undergraduate, Kivrin, is sent back in time to 1320 to study the Middle Ages for what she expects will be two weeks. The first thing that goes wrong is that she arrives not in 1320 but 1348--in the midst of the Black Plague. We alternate between Kivrin in medieval Bri...
Kivrin has always wanted to go back into the past, specificially the middle ages and she thinks shes prepared for this. When she eventually manages to get there she finds out that things aren't quite what she expects. She really isn't prepared for the situation and actually finds herself coping wi...
The premise of this book is that an historian is sent back to the Middle Ages to do some research. As the Middle Ages are a '10' (presumably meaning they haven't been declared safe) the project is rushed through while the head of faculty is away. This of course leads to mistakes being made. So inste...
I felt a little bit of trepidation setting out to read this book. Firstly I was alarmed by it's size and then I was alarmed by some of the quite harsh criticisms of the book suggesting that very little actually happens. On the other hand, it is quite highly acclaimed by many and now featured in the ...
and what exactly was the point of this nearly 600-page novel? that people can be incredibly annoying and repetitious? that the Black Death kills? i can't believe i wasted so many hours reading this flabby, irritating nonsense. i could have been spending time with friends or exercising or taking naps...
Doomsday Book really put me through the wringer. I woke up a couple of nights ago, worrying about the characters. They've popped into my head frequently the last few days. And I was in tears when I read the ending yesterday. I think this is by far the best Connie Willis book I've read - and I've mos...
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