November wrap-up. Wrong Place, Wrong Time was the favorite but No Hiding In Boise and The First To Die At The End are close runners up.
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November wrap-up. Wrong Place, Wrong Time was the favorite but No Hiding In Boise and The First To Die At The End are close runners up.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
These characters had me rooting for their relationship until the very end! A time travel story well executed and not at all confusing like some can get😅💛
Introducing my new reading buddy, Tiramisu! She‘s three years old, and she was a good mama to her kitten but now wants to live a quiet life as an only cat. We‘re still adjusting to each other, but I‘m so happy to have a cat in the household again.
I‘m not sure yet how I feel about the tagged book. It‘s for a new book club…
#hyggehourreadathon
pickI don't read time travel books, unless authored by Alix Harrow. Somehow she managed to write so beautifully that she didn't make it repetitive. Books about knights don't generally make their way on my tbr, but again, it seems the author defied this as well. The writing, the themes and depth of the story kept me reading a book I shouldn't have even wanted to pick up.
so-soEntertaining enough, but just too flawed to give a pick. The writing is a bit simple, the time idea falls apart in the lightest breeze, and the big plot points are visible miles away. Bindi says a good walkies is way better.
so-soWith some depth this could have been awesome, there was so many missed opportunities here. There's no exploration of feelings to how Claire feels to find herself two hundred years in the past or of her feelings on being parted from Frank. There's no exploration of struggle between adapting to an earlier time without modern day conveniences.
It could have been epic but it was average and not worth the 849 page count.
This quote stopped me in my tracks. “Their marriage was like a set of scales constantly balancing itself. And then, at some point, when neither of them was paying attention, they‘d tipped so far into bad, they‘d settled there. Now only an enormous amount of good would shift them back. An impossible amount of good. The good that was left between them didn‘t carry enough weight…” (p. 220)
so-soThis was okay. Many interesting ideas about time travel and how you would view the time before. I thought there were some ideas not explored enough (I kept thinking about smells which he barely mentioned). It is interesting to read something written 50 years ago that is a time travel book , you have to "travel" back to the 70s to think about what he would know and how different another 80 years would be.
Kindred ruined me for these types ?
