To Say Nothing of the Dog

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Published Dec. 15, 2009 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-307-57408-4
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OCLC Number:
519622532

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4 stars (3 reviews)

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel...Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right--not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself. From the Paperback edition.

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reviewed To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

What a great, fun read!

4 stars

I read her short story "Blued Moon" back in the eighties in Asimov's magazine, and it stuck with me every since as some of the funnest and funniest sci-fi I've read. This book is all that, in novel form.

The romance is weaved right into a great time travel story that pokes fun at everything and everyone. I confess I'm going to have to go back and read it again just pick up the clues I know were there the first time, that I missed while zooming through.

Unless you hate Victorian England, romance and time travel (and maybe even if you do), this is well worth reading.

reviewed To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

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3 stars

I like time travel books, I liked the earlier Connie Willis book Bellwether - but something here was less than ideal. The too-much homage to Jerome K Jerome? The length? Not sure. I still want to read Doomsday Book, and maybe at that point I'll have an answer to the Connie Willis question.

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