Bought for $5 on 3/19/23 for Second Foundation meeting 4/23/23, to discuss with A Symphony of Echoes. 14 St. Mary’s novels and 4 Time Police, 2 Frogmorton, 3 Elizabeth Cage, all in 10 years!? Plus numerous short stories. I can’t find any mainstream reviews. Looking forward to comparing these to the Connie Willis 2010 time travel novels, Blackout, and All Clear.
How old is Jodi Taylor?
Does she draw?
Did she have a fraught and mysterious childhood, or is Max’s totally made up?
Robert Laurence Binyon poem
“an appealing cast of characters in this new series opener, most especially the intrepid Max. There is plenty of humor, lots of action, and even a touch of romance” ~ Library Journal on publication of the first American edition in June 2016.
The idea that History itself fights violently to keep historians from messing around is very imaginative - and fascinating.
Hope punk gets infiltrated with dystopian intrigue, including profit-seeking scoundrels. Pretty cool.
Hilarious and goofy similes. E.g., he’d fallen for Kal like a sperm whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle.
Lots of humor throughout.
She likes to blame herself for all sort of things, but fortunately it doesn’t last - she doesn’t dwell in recrimination and guilt, and never indulged in resentment or blaming others.
When she has a scary group to face, it’s “stuck my chin in the air” and faced them, 4 times.
Another trope, sort of emblematic of most of the adventures: Everything went wrong. Right from the off, everything went wrong.
Sex scene is weak - intrusive and unnecessary. Would be much better if alluded to at an appropriate moment as a well-deserved “climax” to the relationship building.
For a who,e she had to live in a place with black mould, yet she got five years of wages - where are they? p. 169
Is articulacy a word? Yes, but it’s new to me, pyroclastic too. “Yay!”
Sophisticated training and teaching, like “Your primary survival strategy will always be running away.”
Hawking: “It just seems strange that a hangar in an historical research centre is named after the famous physicist.’
“Being a teacher she obviously did mind-reading as well.”
electronic scratchpad fitted snugly inside a knee pocket
FOD plod (foreign object drop) clean-up exercise.
Britishisms (defined in notes in the the text):
bunking off
Sod that for a game of soldiers.
Shoot, Shag, or Marry
shagged
Mancunian
pillock
footie
todger
seconded
P45s
banging on, bang on,
‘Bugger off
stuck in (6)
sock bun
smarm
bashing the bishop
winding up
sarnie
butties
Sod's Law
armarium
Hereward the Wake
Adventures:
Westminster abbey work, ch.4
Peasant’s revolt, ch. 4
The Somme, ch. 4 & 5
Cretaceous Period, ch. 8 (Farrell’s story ch. 7); more and return
Library of Alexandria, ch.
