Posted on 11/22/2010 10:40:52 AM PST by RJR_fan
If you are a fan of WWII historical fiction, Connie Willis, and excellent reading, be sure and check out Blackout. By using the conceit of time-traveling history majors, Ms. Willis gives us a detailed look inside Britain during "her finest hour."
Click on the link, for an audio file of a V1 "Buzz bomb." An in-law's grandfather designed the pulse-jet motor.
We’ve enjoyed conversations about the future. Here’s one about fairly recent history.
Especially "To Say Nothing of the Dog" which is on my shortlist of books to be marooned with (along with the book which inspired it).
I flew out to Colorado to visit my son for Thanksgiving and read Glen Beck’s “A Christmas Sweater” which was a good read. I’ll have to see if I can get that one to read on the flight back.
Note: the “sequel” (actually just the second half of the book) “All Clear”, is also available. If you buy Blackout, buy All Clear as well so you don’t have to spend the 9 months that I did wondering what would happen to Polly, Eileen, Michael, and the war.
Buy “Doomsday Book” and “To Say Nothing of the Dog” while you’re at it. Read “Doomsday Book” and then lighten the mood with “To Say Nothing”
Connie Willis is probably the greatest author writing today. And I read a lot of books.
If it was worth saving, when will they fight to restore it? When will we fight to restore the America we were born to?
Some English folk are beginning to politely suggest that, just maybe, jihad works both ways.
I hope people on both sides of the Atlantic figure that out before it is too late.
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