Now that is something I miss. The long continuation of sitting out in the car
talking with friends, or listening, after the drive by of all our old haunts.
Finally calling it a night, or morning, realizing we could have driven all the
way to Amarillo, or the gulf coast, the time we spent just parked talking out
in front of the house.
I think my old car simply had more comfortable furniture. Smiles. "Buick is a
Beauty too."
Haha. Quote from the passenger seat mirror, brought to my attention by one of
my male friends. There were many tangents of conversation traveling through
time. Audrey
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On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
_Doomsday Book_
by Connie Willis
read by Jenny Sterlin
Kivrin was absolutely determined she would go through the Net to visit
the early Middle Ages. She made certain she learned how to spin using
a drop spindle, that she learned how to weave and even to dye cloth and
sew it into clothing appropriate to the period she so wished to know.
She'd planned to arrive in the region of the village of Skengate, some
miles south of Oxford, in the early 1300s, years before the Black Death
swept the Midlands.
But as too oft happens, the best laid plans of rats and men definitely
went astray, as Kivrin finds herself on arrival fighting a deadly
version of influenza and then learns, too late, that she'd arrived over
twenty years after she'd intended to do, and she must watch the people
she's now come to care about fighting the plague.
Meanwhile, it appears that Mr. Dunworthy, who'd seen to it that Kivrin
was best set to face the early 1300s, cannot be certain she'd arrived
at the proper time, much less the proper place. The acting head of the
History Department in Oxford is an officious ass intent on seeing
everyone else as to blame for what he has poorly planned, much less set
into motion. When the tech who oversaw Kivrin's transference falls ill
with influenza almost immediately, Oxford is almost immediately put
under quarantine, and nothing is easy from that point on. Assisted by
Dr. Ahren and her nephew Colin, who is keen on the Crusades, Dunworthy
must do his best to find out precisely where and when Kivrin has ended
up and what may be needed to retrieve her. But it appears that fate is
intent on making matters absolutely as complicated as possible....
One of the most fascinating books I've read in quite a while, and
that's saying a lot! Definitely one that kept me sitting in my car
after I'd come home, trying desperately to learn what would happen
next! It won a Hugo and a Nebula, and it's one I greatly recommend.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very
wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
