One of the best time-travel stories I've read.
RABCK to jenny-lou-who.

This looks like such an interesting book -- thanks for sharing it with me DrSlump612! I will be sure to pass it on after I have read it.

I finally got around to reading this one (my TBR pile is just getting out of hand!) -- it was a lot of fun! I especially liked the sections focusing on Kivrin's adventures and relationships in the 14th century, and after a while I found myself skimming the chapters taking place in the 21st century in order to get back to that aspect of the story a little quicker.

From the back cover: "For Kivrin, preparing for on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be retrieved.

But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin -- barely of age herself -- finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.

Five years in the writing by one of science fiction's most honored authors, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit."

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Going to visit the MFA today and will find a good place to release this book.