It’s been a while since I’ve been so emotionally devastated by a book. I realize, in retrospect, that I’ve been doing a lot of comfort reading. Books where, even when bad things happen, I know that a happy ending is guaranteed. I didn’t know of any such guarantee when I started The Kingdoms. I had … Continue reading That time Natasha Pulley shattered me into tiny bits and then delicately put me back together again (i.e., I read The Kingdoms)
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Fangirling with Connie Willis
It's a very bizarre thing to find yourself squeeing in the middle of a gut-wrenching and upsettingly graphic story about the bubonic plague. And yet. Here we are. Doomsday Book was published in 1992 and is the first full-length book in Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series. It tells the story of Kivrin Engle, a … Continue reading Fangirling with Connie Willis