4.5 stars, just to be clear.Part time travel adventure, part comedy of manners and part mystery, To Say Nothing of the Dog is a little bit of everything I love about books. To Say Nothing of the Dog takes its name (and much of its sensibility) from the famous novella by Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men i...
If ever there was a symphony as book (Beethoven's 8th?), it would be this one. Like a symphony, To Say Nothing is a wonderful composite that is almost impossible to deconstruct. In many books, there might be a chapter that stands out, whether due to brilliance or failure; this is largely a harmoniou...
This is my first Connie Willis. I learned about this book after reading Carol’s excellent review, and I’m so glad I did. The novel was a charming discovery, and I’m definitely going to read more of this writer. The book is hard to summarize. It touches on a number of interlinked themes, but the mai...
I like time travel books, I liked the earlier Connie Willis book Bellwether - but something here was less than ideal. The too-much homage to Jerome K Jerome? The length? Not sure. I still want to read Doomsday Book, and maybe at that point I'll have an answer to the Connie Willis question.
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
This was an excellent merging of genres. Light tone, good humor, and still a good mystery/scifi/victorian romance that moves steadily. I didn't realize when I started that this is a companion volume to Willis' Doomsday Book. It stands alone quite well, but I'll have to read that first novel now.
1998 Dec 211999 June 72004 Apr 091999 May 15I read it again, and I loved it. this is definitely a comfort read for me. Ah, the madcap chaos of it all. The naughty cat, the charming Cyril, the annoying people. Total love.
All of Connie Willis' other time travel books are too long. This one is too short.That said, I think it is incredibly cruel to create a future timeline with no cats in it. I have seen your future, and I do not want to live in it.Good thing the space-time continuum apparently abhors a vacuum of kitte...
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