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I’m about half way through Blackout by Connie Willis.
Someone told me that To Say Nothing of the Dog is the sequel to The Doomsday Book? I disagree!! Who is the first person I meet in Blackout? Colin! And who is he looking for? Mr. Dunworthy! And who does Colin run into as he’s running around Oxford? Badri! And who knows to not let Colin anywhere near the net? EVERYONE. Blackout is the sequel to Doomsday Book says I, as all my fave people are in the first chapter! Don’t at me!
Anyway, I love time travel stories that go a little like this: Let’s go back in time! What could possibly go wrong? In fact, let’s go back to the London Blitz, and then go to Dunkirk!
Um, everything could wrong? Didn’t Dunworthy already learn that the hard way?
I’m about half way through and Blackout is a damn Lobster.
It’s super intense, and scary AF, and I can’t put it down, it freaks me out to read it, it freaks me out to not be reading it and not know what is going to happen, i want to poke it I’m afraid to poke it. I call books like that Lobsters.
I was so into this book, and being so affected by it, that when my husband asked me something super basic about dinner, it took me a good 60 seconds to realize that I wasn’t in 1940 London and that I was perfectly safe.
What books have been lobsters for you?
(this post has minor spoilers for Blackout by Connie Willis)
What’s doubly scary is that all our time travellers – Polly, Mike, Eileen, and Mary, they KNOW exactly what happened in England during World War II. Our time travelers are in fact, historians studying at Oxford in the year 2060.
And while the time travellers are on assignment observing people, if they need to learn something (like how to drive), they can pop through the net back to the future, learn whatever they need to learn, and then pop back right moments after they left. Time travel is neat!
But they people they are with, they have no idea where and when the bombs will fall, they have no idea how much war is yet to come.
the Little Red Reviewer 
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