tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post2537003788179500859..comments2023-10-30T05:38:45.028-07:00Comments on The Infusion: Tuesday Book Blogging: review of Blackout and All Clear; The Controversial Giving TreeLKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791517233920008067noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-10409473809885178732012-05-06T18:18:36.343-07:002012-05-06T18:18:36.343-07:00Blackout" is (with "All Clear") a t...Blackout" is (with "All Clear") a two-part novel by Connie Willis. In the novel, a group of time-travelling historians become stranded in London during the Blitz of World War II, living through episodes such as the bombing of St Paul's Cathedral.<br /><br />The author has described the novel as being about "Dunkirk and ration books and D-Day and V-1 rockets, about tube shelters and Bletchley Park and gas masks and stirrup pumps and Christmas pantomimes and cows and crossword puzzles and the deception campaign" and particularly about all the unacknowledged heroes who "did their bit" to save the world. Those heroes included many women and men on the "home front," such as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the "atta girls," who acted as wartime transport pilots.Canadahttp://tearingdownvsbuildingup.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-50096143216834562802011-04-05T11:06:53.867-07:002011-04-05T11:06:53.867-07:00I used to not think twice about the Giving Tree, b...I used to not think twice about the Giving Tree, but since the unhealthy relationship at its heart was pointed out to me, I've disliked it. My husband disagrees, I think.Lorinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931566230820899463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-68913512572602002011-04-05T09:38:47.427-07:002011-04-05T09:38:47.427-07:00The Anonymous Historian confesses to be so sleepy ...The Anonymous Historian confesses to be so sleepy that she can not have a coherent conversation about anything at all - but she looks forward to carrying on at great length about these long novels once she is awake again.<br /><br />She also reports that she has two copies of The Giving Tree, that each was a gift from a very different person at a very different time in her life, that she has come to have some deep ambivalence about the story that it tells, but that she once liked it enough to give it as a gift herself. Go figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com