'Margaret Atwood: Because she’s good at Twitter and you forgot how to spell “Le Guin.”'
are you saying someone saw me at the bookstore the day i was trying to replace my copy of the Left Hand of Darkness but forgot her name and ended up buying the Blind Assassin instead
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Lily Bart doesn't need this right now.
(just kidding Lily Bart would never be unaware of her faux-pas she is aware of every faux-pas she will ever make before she even makes them.)
there's technically no evidence people *aren't* doing those things, we just don't see it happen. but the students are all studying the time periods they go to so it's their choice to go. which doesn't necessarily make it better but at least its not like these professors are forcing them or anything. and they do also have a rating system for which time periods are safest that is also... usually ignored..........
the books take place in 2060-ish and from what I remember you eventually learn its a slightly altered future where some plague type stuff happened around the early 2000s-2010s (no cats exist in 2060 because they all died out), so a lot of records were supposedly lost.
I confess I haven't actually read Doomsday Book yet. I started it a while ago but I was just coming off some books that did not make a good transition into her stuff so I just couldn't get into it at the time. But now I'm reading Passage so maybe after this I'll pick it up again.
ooohhh really?? I just picked up a special fancy book that has Lincoln's Dreams and Passage in it. Neither of them are part of the time travel universe but still very very good, of course. I wonder if she will be around promoting the book at all, I would love to meet her.
the two main ladies from Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis and also everyone who ever time travels in any of her works (most of them), listen: i think we did pretty ok studying history without literally almost dying at multiple points during world wars
(I say this as if I wouldn't 100% jump at the chance to be a historian in a Connie Willis novel)
oh I love the piece on Frog and Toad. I used to get them all the time from the library as a kid, I read them over and over for years, and now I have a huge book of every Frog and Toad story in my room and the kids love it. I hadn't read one in years until I got that and I still love them so much, more than I thought I would. They are hilarious as an adult, but still really touching and lovely. Everyone should read Frog and Toad.
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