Connie Willis' Doomsday Book
I’ve tried reading this a couple of times, but never got far because I assumed the story of a young woman historian getting stranded in the 1300s would be stressful. But I love To Say Nothing of the Dog so much that this time I plowed ahead anyway. And it was stressful, but not in the ways I expected. Meanwhile, her colleagues back in the future think something has gone wrong with her trip, but soon there’s a flu pandemic getting in the way of figuring it out (a timely read). Anyway the characters here are great but this book is GRIM. I kind of admire Willis for writing one book that is so fun and one that is the opposite of fun in the same series (and with a couple of the same characters). B+?
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