Picked up unregistered at the York BookCrfossing meetup in December. It came to me with the recommendation "I really wanted to like this book but I didn't", so not promising, but let's see.

From what I managed to read of it, this book left me amazed that somebody could take a subject like time travel and make it so very boring. There is far too much detail about the technicalities and not enough about the actual experience of going back to the past, and the constant jargon that isn't explained properly really annoyed me. In the end, I gave up after about 100 pages because there was no prospect that the author was going to bother to explain anything, and because I found out that this is merely the first instalment of a series of, presumably, equally stultifying tripe. I should learn to listen more when people tell me not to read something.

Released at BookCrossing meetup.

Oh dear... I thought it sounded interesting. It's a big fatty of a book which is off putting, but I thought, hey ho, give it a go. Louise's comments don't sound too promising.... hmmm

I've not read this and I don't know when/if I will. In the meantime I feel that I've had this a while and it would probably do better back at the York bookcrossers' bookshelves in search of a new reader.

Picked up at the March York Bookcrossing meetup.

I'm afraid Louise was right - this was extraordinarily dull. It's as though the author wanted to cram in as much detail about WW2 as possible, irregardless of whether it had any interest or not. I kept getting the characters muddled up - they seemed to be plot holders rather than actual people.

Two thirds of the way through, I considered giving up, but only kept on reading to see how this would be resolved. I hadn't realised this was the first of a sodding series... How can this be so long and yet without an ending?

To be released at the York Bookcrossing meetup.

Since this has been kicking around for a while now, in order to free up some space on the Brigantes OBCZ Bookshelf, I thought I'd move it on to the Ye Olde Starre Inne OBCZ Bookshelf - where hopefully it'll find a new reader...

releasing, as promised...

I picked this up from Ye Olde Starre Inn while wandering around York this afternoon, despite not having a book to leave in its place. I figure it's not essential and I've made many donations to York Official BookCrossing Zones in the past - and will no doubt do so again. As a general rule, I do like to be fair about these things!

Anyway, I chose it because, although I usually say I've read more than enough books about World War Two and have no interest in reading any more, I've thoroughly enjoyed a couple of this author's other Time Travelling books in the past (Doomsday Book in August 2007 and To Say Nothing of the Dog in December 2008) so I thought I'd give this one a go as well.

Shame the previous Journal Entries are so negative! We'll see . . . .

Strange: I seem to have missed the terrorist bomb in 2015 that destroyed St Paul's and the surrounding streets . . . . still, I suppose in 1988 it seemed far enough ahead to be plausible . . . . I'm happier reading about the past that really is past :-)

That was fun! Not for the first time, and undoubtedly not for the last time either, I'm out of step with previously journalling York BookCrossers. Of course, I knew what to expect and had a barrel-load of salt ready - you need far more than a pinch to enter the Oxford Time Travelling lab, whose historians and researchers pop up all over the past, specifically WWII on this occasion. Those at the beginning to observe the evacuation of children, Dunkirk and the Blitz run into all sorts of trouble with their drop zones/the Net not behaving as they/it should . . . Hopefully the V-1/V-2 expert is doing better - although we haven't heard from her for a while . . . . I wonder . . . . Anyway, I've already asked North Yorkshire's library service to find me the sequel, All Clear, to follow the further adventures of our heroes as they try (presumably successfully in the end) to return to 2060 . . . . Apparently their sole copy lives in Scarborough!

Left with some other books on a table in the Reception area.

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