{"id":2649,"date":"2010-09-28T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T19:43:01","slug":"the-doomsday-book-connie-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"The Doomsday Book ~ Connie Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/200px-doomsdaybook1sted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2650\" title=\"200px-DoomsdayBook(1stEd)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/200px-doomsdaybook1sted.jpg?w=198\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Although I thought that 578 pages of reading would be a bit much, I have to say that you can fly through this tale. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in time to a 14th century English village. Due to a technical error, Kivrin is sent not to 1320 but to 1348 &#8211; right in the path of the Black Death. The story is completely readable and should I say believable. I like the balancing stories of 2048 vs 1348. It is a science fiction novel and a historical fiction novel all in one. Although there is a span of 800 years, some human behavior has not changed very much. It&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I thought that 578 pages of reading would be a bit much, I have to say that you can fly through this tale. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in time to a 14th century English village. Due to a technical error, Kivrin is sent not to 1320 but to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-GJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}