As you can see I picked up just about any book that someone said was like Gone Girl or Girl on the Train this summer…and I’ve been burned people, burned I say! But YOU may love it because it looks like my opinion is not the popular sentiment. Mia Dennett is a 25 year old art teacher and daughter of a judge. One evening, after her boyfriend stands her up she makes the decision to go home with a man named Colin whom she meets […]
On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot. ‘Tis a silly place.
Fun fact: the ‘doom’ in ‘doomsday book’ has little to do with the word ‘doom’ as in ‘gloom and doom’, but comes from the Latin ‘domus’ or house. I have to admit, though, that it sounds wonderfully creepy, which I suppose is the only reason Connie Willis chose it as the title to her novel as it has nothing to do with the early medieval document. It’s not even set in the same period of time. The year is 2055, the place is Oxford. Historians […]