Blackout | 
so-soThe basic plot was good, but it took so long to get there. And it actually didn‘t “get there”, because it ends abruptly and if you want to know the rest, you better have the continuation (All Clear) in hand and ready to go. I enjoyed Willis‘ previous books, Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, but felt this one lingered too heavily on unnecessary details and dragged down the plot.
I‘m still singing the praises of Blackout, albeit that it‘s LONG…. but I‘ve never felt so entirely immersed in 1940s London by any other book #letterB and of course Crossing to Safety is a gem of a book I need to reread every few years #letterC
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First time to blackout my #BookspinBingo board! So happy about it! @TheAromaofBooks
so-soThis book kinda surprised me I don‘t usually get caught up in books like I do movies but this book wasn‘t too bad I ready this because I was told but this book I kinda something I‘ve dreamt about doing being able to go back to Pearl Harbor after being in 2060‘s is such a cool concept and the other kinds trying to convince their thesis adviser to let them to V-day would just be amazing to try.
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Finally read this! Connie Willis time travel books are always a turmoil of emotion. She enjoys setting the scene so much that sometimes it feels like the plot is stagnating. But once it gets going, wow. This is part 1 of 2 and it‘s truly part 1 - it just ends in the middle of everything. Ack! Good thing I have book 2 right here ...
panUmmm, don‘t end your 300+ page book with a whole chapter in a mystery POV, the characters stranded, and no resolution?
Just a thought.
so-soI can't help but feel this book could have used more editing (as @ErinSBecker pointed out on my first post about it, but I was foolish and did not heed the warning). Rather a lot of it is travel logistics and characters having anxiety spirals for multiple pages, and occasionally events happening several times in the exact same words. The premise was interesting, but I don't think I'll be picking up All Clear.
Mike we have just established you've been reading the newspaper off and on for at least a week, there is no reason at all for you to suddenly think you don't know what year it is, the sequence of events preceding this implies that you are *holding a newspaper right now*
Sort of amused by how much of this book so far is people trying to figure out where to find other specific people
Here‘s my favourite reads this year #19in2019 @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @KarenUK
7 from my year of SFF starting at the top, 8 fiction and 4 non fiction at the bottom.
Everyone please join in if you have time. I‘d love to see your choices!
What about you @Reggie @batsy @CarolynM @merelybookish @readordierachel @JennyM @Cathythoughts @Ruthiella
pickI loved this and didn‘t want to stop reading - which is just as well as it ends at a midpoint and so I have 640 pages to go to finish the final book!
Book 3 in the Oxford Time Travel series. In 2065 time travel has been invented but only historians are allowed to use it. This book covers three of them who are sent to seperate parts of England during the Blitz. It really makes you feel like you have been there yourself. ⬇️
Operation Treat Yo Self, bagpipe-in-a-cold-parade edition. This plus the tagged book ❤️
For @ljuliel who asks what historical periods we like:
Tudor England, Regency England, Victorian England, England between the wars, England during the Blitz (tagged book), England during rationing after WWII. Major anglophile here! Medieval Europe. Expats in Paris during wartime, Old New York around 1900. Antebellum American South. Appalachia since settlement. #KeepLitsyActive #HistoryBooks #historicalfiction
pickThere were a lot of characters to introduce. However, once things got going, they really got going. I didn‘t want to stop reading; I wanted to just keep going to find out what happened. I really liked some of the “contemps” (the contemporary people living in their time) – I especially loved the actor Polly met. Cont in comments
This is going to be a long day waiting for results from a biopsy, but at least I have a good book!
pickContinuing my TBR project:
This is the oldest selection on my TBR list - Originally added July 12, 2011.
I love time-travel books as well as historical fiction. Blackout was definitely one of the best of both genres. There is a plethora of London history in these pages but none as beautiful as the description of St. Paul‘s Cathedral.
1. Blackout (& sequel All Clear) by Connie Willis
2. Every day, even when I‘m running late 🛏
3. 32C - dreaming of cooler weather 🥵
4. French fries and ice cream 🍟🍦
5. On it 👋
Amazing spreading of the love and giveaway! Congratulations @Whimsical.Curiosity !! 🎉🍾🎈🎁
🤗 Hugs to @thevictoriousone @shenanigan913 and all my other Litsy friends!!!
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pickBrilliant, suspenseful and great story telling. Unputdownable pageturner- the characters‘ fates are all left hanging at the end so I immediately borrowed the sequel from the library.
Moving from audiobooking to ebooking. I‘m am loving this one so far. The only other book by Connie Willis I have read is Passage which I read back in HS. #readinganddrinking
Only just started this one but sucked in already. Love a good time travel story.
Another book I found on campus today in one of the free book sections. The authors name caught my attention because our Discord book club is reading one of her books “ To Say Nothing of the Dog” in June! Anyone know this book or this author?
Getting some reading in before my next patient arrives 📖😊 #IReadWheneverICan
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These 3 books are next on my TBR for my #HugoAwardChallenge2018 #SciFiSaturday #MagicalMarch ❤️🌈🍀
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Having my spent my time in Retail; this is how I spend #BlackFriday. Watching the sunrise from my favorite chair with a cup of tea and book. This year it's Scottish Breakfast and on my Kindle Blackout by Connie Willis. #teaandbooks #lifeisgood
pickOk a declaration up front; I love Connie Willis stories, that being said this book is an acquired taste. In simplest terms, time travel is real and a tool of historians in the 2060‘s. A group of students are sent back to study the blitz and then things go wrong. This is not a book about the big events, rather the experience of ordinary people trying to survive the extraordinary; historians as shopgirls, as nannies, as journalists.
Pizza on the grill, a glass of rosé, & a good book. Not a bad evening. #bookanddinner
Trying to relax with this book after a trying day. What's that wrap on your leg for you ask? Oh, I was just attacked (unprovoked) by a dog on my run this morning. Yep, it's been a difficult day. (Good news - they found the dog & I didn't need rabies shots.)
Waffles, wine, & a new book for dinner tonight. 😊 #bookndinner
While these (fantastic, award-winning) novels don't take place entirely #underground, they feature some excellent and memorable scenes there, as people took shelter during the Blitz. And I'm never going to pass up the opportunity to rave about Connie Willis. #septembowie
I have checked this out from libraries SEVERAL times and never read more than about twenty pages--I generally like Connie Willis and wanted to have time to really dig in. A rainy week at the cottage was exactly what I needed--almost done! Went on a long canoe trip today, so I'm ready to chill and finish it.
My one concern is that ALL CLEAR wasn't in at the library when I got this one...
pickSuper fun, exciting sci-fi/historical fiction about time-traveling historians going back to WWII London for research purposes. However, Willis is a fan of cliffhangers so I'll be moving right along to the sequel.
Wait. His boat is called the "Lady Jane?" Now I'm even more concerned. ? #janegrey #9dayqueen #blackout #WWII #Dunkirk #history #timetravel
Day 23 #cliffhangers #maybookflowers Connie Willis's Blackout and All Clear are supposed to be considered two parts making up one book, but they were released separately. Blackout was released first and I found it very hard to wait for All Clear to be released so that I could find out what happened.
Time travel and World War II. Don't read the first one without having the second one on hand. Major #cliffhanger alert! #maybookflowers
#maybookflowers day 7: #blackandwhitecovers
Oops! Forgot to post this yesterday! I love these black and white covers and really really just ought to start reading them already!
so-soSigh... I'm so disappointed. I give it a so-so for the scene setting, but I found the book to be boring. I liked the characters that the historians were observing but found the historians to be one dimensional and got tired of reading about their thoughts, which were the same over and over again. Also, who brings only one set of clothes when time traveling?! So stuck in mundane details and could have been 200 pages shorter.
Day 21 #ATopicI'dLikeToKnowMoreAbout #ReadJanuary We never learned much about either WWI or WWII in school. I've picked up some. It would like to learn more, although not from a dry history book. In BlackOut/All Clear, The time travellers go back to the London Blitz. Very interesting.
These are by far two of my favourite books EVER! This time travel series is amazing, set in a world where university students studying history can actually go back in time and live the past! I can't rave enough about these stories which began with Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog.
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pickIn Blackout and All Clear, Oxford University historians travel to World War 2 during the time of the Blitz in London. Three young historians live among the contemporaries to study the time period. For the historians, time travel has always been reliable, so when they have trouble getting home, they aren't sure what to do. If you have read Willis' Doomsday Book, it is the same concept but in WW2 rather than the Middle Ages. #funfridayphoto
pickOne of my favorites. Time traveling Oxford historians from 2060 trapped in Lindon during the Blitz. I love the threads that are woven in this first volume. All Clear picks up immediately from the end of Blackout; there, the threads get tangled indeed. If you like time travel get this and read it now
