Nineteenth book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. When I started this book, I thought that I might have started a complicated story that would involve wrapping my head around complex ideas of multiple dimensions and the paradox of time travel. I have never been good at visualizing the fourth dimension in my head and whenever I have tried to grasp the concept of time travel, I’ve been discombobulated (what a word!) by it and have given up immediately. The closest I came to […]
The one where I still love that Scotsman…
The second book in Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling Outlander series, Dragonfly in Amber opens in present day (well, late 1960s, I think, if I do the math correctly, but more present day than eighteenth century). Claire has returned to Scotland after her husband Frank’s death, and she’s brought her daughter, tall red haired Brianna, with her. The trip is ostensibly a mother-daughter vacation, but Claire is actually looking for a way to tell Brianna that her real father is Jamie Fraser, the man Claire married in […]
The one where I want Jamie Fraser to call me Sassenach…
I first read Outlander about fifteen years or so ago. My mom gave it to me, saying, “I know you don’t like time travel, but just get over that, and read this book.” Rarely does my mom do that, but when she does, she hits the mark. In fact, she gave me Harry Potter in much the same way, about four months before it exploded, saying, “Stick with it. Trust me.” After hearing about the upcoming series on Starz, and discovering it was only $1.99 for […]