Oxford, 2057, where time travel is a thing.Lady Shrapnell is throwing all her energy into restoring Coventry Cathedral, destroyed during a German bombing in 1940. And she'll be damned well requisitioning every last time-traveling historian from Oxford if that's what it takes to recover all the original artifacts.Ned Henry is one of those unfortunate historians, trying to dodge yet another deployment, so he gets sent back to the Victorian era for a bit of downtime. He's also meant to deliver a ra...

It's a revelation, genuinely clever and laugh-out-loud funny, especially the absolutely bonkers mix-up involving Cyril. Romance, time travel, a dash of historical fiction – Connie Willis's "To Say Nothing of the Dog" has it all. If you're looking for a great book review that points you to a hilarious read, look no further.

➽ And the moral of this rererererereread is: this book is perfection and the audio version is everything. That is all. P.S. The only thing that is missing from this book is the Empress of Blandings. Pretty sure she'd get along famously with pwecious dearum Juju and Cyril.P.S. I want a penwiper for Christmas. Preferably one that meows and purrs and stuff.👋 Until next time.[October 2018]· Previous rating: 5 stars *eyerolls at her 2015 Self of Despicable Book Taste and Total Lack of Judgement*· Ne...

Fateful re-read 5/4/18 This is one of my all-time favorite books. From the clever phrases and deep PTSD exasperation to the total eventual collapse of the space-time continuum because of a freaking cat to THE BISHOP'S BIRD-STUMP, I find myself chortling nearly twenty years after the first read and again on the re-read.We're catapulted through time thanks to the Oxford History Department's time machine put to the disposal of a wealthy American patron who is, let's be frank, NUTS. She's sent seemi...

$2.99 Kindle deal, December 11, 2018. While this quirky time-travel novel acts as a sort of sequel to *Doomsday Book*, the two stories have totally different feels, and you don't really need to have read *Doomsday Book* before diving into *To Say Nothing of the Dog* by Connie Willis. This is genuinely one of my all-time favorite books, but it’s admittedly a bit of an oddball and probably won't click with every reader. It's part madcap farce, with characters dashing around and hopping through tim...

Two weeks ago, I hadn't even heard of Connie Willis or her novel, To Say Nothing of the Dog. It stumbled into my life because I randomly clicked on this article in The Guardian while searching for something completely different. If I'd been doing my random clicking before Goodreads existed, I probably would have skipped To Say Nothing of the Dog, because "science-fiction fantasy" isn't usually my thing. But these days, I'm feeling more adventurous, so I dove right in. And what a blast it was! It...

Christmas 2010: I realized that I had gotten stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favorites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge: to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’s 35 books, 6 of which I’d previously read, leaving 29 titles by 14 authors who were new to me.While working through this reading list I got married, went on my honeymoon, switched careers, and ...

If ever there was a symphony as a book (Beethoven's 8th?), it would be this one. Like a symphony, *To Say Nothing of the Dog* is a wonderful composite that is almost impossible to deconstruct. In many books, there might be a chapter that stands out, whether due to brilliance or failure; this is largely a harmonious, excellently written whole, with only one or two incongruous passages near the end. Then there's the writing: amazingly developed and interwoven, it takes a number of disparate theme...

Oh, dear. Every time I see the title of Connie Willis's *To Say Nothing of the Dog* it makes me feel anxious. I’m almost ashamed to say this publicly, but I’ll be brave: I didn't like it. I know, I know. Everyone loves *To Say Nothing of the Dog*, and I can't quite explain why I don't. Normally, I adore all the elements that make up this book: time travel, romance, the 19th century. Just to be absolutely certain, I've read it twice over the years; once in traditional book format and once as an ...

Updated June 28, 2021: The further we get from when Connie Willis wrote *To Say Nothing of the Dog*, the funnier certain bits become (the phrase “fax-mags” cracked me up!), though I might not adore it quite as much as when I first read it. But I *do* love it, and I’ve read it so often I cringe at every ebook error. (You know you’ve reread a book *too* many times when you’re hissing at changes in the italics.) This book has, I think, every single Connie Willis trope imaginable (except the 'rocks ...