[Locked - Friends Only] Curiouser and Curiouser

Ugh. I woke up this morning with aches and pains in every joint. My neck is stiff and my head is all stuffy. Who knows what I've picked up. I just hope it's a regular cold virus, and not something exotic brought in from another dimension by one of the refugees.

( No real news )

So now I have to go to E* P***. I know this is all very abrupt, but whatever's going on, I'm beginning to suspect it has to do with, er, my first trip "away from home." Thank goodness my analogue here drives a Prius and the tank is almost full, so I don't have to worry, yet, about whether any of my credit or debit cards will work in this dimension. My Dad still lives there with my youngest brother, but I don't think it would be a good idea to involve them in this, so I'm planning on camping. I don't have a laptop, so my posts may be rather erratic, as I don't know how much time I'll have to stop by libraries.

Book Review: Expiration Date by Tim Powers

Expiration Date by Tim Powers

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
Of the three books in the Fault Lines trilogy, I think Expiration Date is the strongest. It's hard hitting and not for those with weak stomachs, but his primary viewpoint characters are sympathetic and believable.

One of the things I've noticed about his works is the way they draw on real-world facts (generally about various famous people, but also scientific news items and other things we see as true) to strengthen the sense of reality about everything we read in his books. For example, much of what he says about Thomas Edison can be found in any biography, but in Powers' hands, these verifiable facts, such as Edison's work selling newspapers and candy on trains when he was twelve, lend credence to the fantastic things he says about Edison. Reading Powers' books, I often find myself contemplating looking some little tidbit of information up, but I'm unwilling to take the time away from the story and wind up trusting him, just because so much of what he's told me fits into what I believe to be true.

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I'm still working on Expiration Date. I'm very glad that lnhammer asked whether I planned on reading the whole trilogy. What's really weird is that I owned all three books, but had very foggy memories of them. Much of what I'd expected to find in Last Call was actually in Expiration Date, so I obviously associated the two, but I think I read them each so far apart from each other, that many of the connections between the three books were lost on me.

I'm still working on Earthquake Weather and will post a review of it, and possibly of the three books in the series as a whole, once I've finished it.

[Locked - Friends Only] Today's Journey

OMG. Someone, presumably one of my analogues, has posted a book review. I was reading that book, too, before all this started, but I never got a chance to finish it. Should I be glad that in some dimension, somewhere, someone got to finish it?

*sigh*

( Well, I logged on to let you know what happened today, so that's what I'm going to do. )