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The Little Book

Selden Edwards

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Aug 21, 2008 Jennie rated it really liked it

Shelves: tnbbc-official-fall-challenge

I'm currently re-reading this to brush on it for book club discussion at the end of the month. It's the kind of book that ties together a lot of threads at the end, so it's been fun to read it again knowing the whole story. You catch a lot that went right past you the first time. ...more

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Oct 28, 2008 Tien rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, time-travel, austria

Wow... I was sucked right into the early 1900s Vienna - wonderful wonderful descriptions mixed with such complex relationships; loops within loops, twist after twist...

Wheeler Burden came into consciousness and found himself in Vienna in 1897. As to how he came to Vienna in the first place, he doesn't know but in 1897 to boot! His world was San Fransisco in 1988 and whilst he is intimately acquainted with Vienna of 1897, his mind will not divulge what happened to him in SF of 1988 to transport h ...more

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Jul 30, 2010 Deedee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science-fiction, time-travel, world-europe-austria, re-read, read-in-2014, indie-next-2008, read-2014-fsf-and-horror, challenge-2014-summer, 0npf-europe

First read: October 2008

Second read: August 2014
I started skimming The Little Book to refresh my memory of the characters and plot points before I started reading the sequel The Lost Prince; and the story drew me in again. So this is a re-read.

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