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Blackout
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bookshelves: all-time-favorites, 2011, hardback, borrowed-from-library, 2019, audiobooks, owned, part-of-a-series, owned-2
Jul 12, 2011
bookshelves: all-time-favorites, 2011, hardback, borrowed-from-library, 2019, audiobooks, owned, part-of-a-series, owned-2
I love this book for all it's History lessons about the Blitz, and WWII. I also love this book for the fantastic writing Connie Willis gives you. It's all so absolutely fascinating, and I cannot wait to get the sequel from Amazon.com. No wonder she's won so many awards.
The characters were believable, and I grew to care about them and their plights. I was so happy at the end of this book, but also so very disappointed - not because it was bad, but because I couldn't find out what happens next, until my shipment gets here!
Also, great tension, throughout. I may have to read this one again!! (I hardly ever do that; who has the time? Soooo many books, so little time... lol)
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April 27, 2019:
I’ve just finished the audiobook version of this novel, which is superb. Katherine Kellgren is the narrator of it, and she is phenomenal. I’ve also just recently purchased the audiobook version of this novel (and All Clear) so I can keep them with me for ever, even though I own the hardback versions also. This is how much I adore this novel.
And even though it’s been a few years since I’d read this novel, I still love it a lot. It still kept me spellbound throughout the telling of it all.
Still 5 stars, and recommended to all and sundry. 😁
The characters were believable, and I grew to care about them and their plights. I was so happy at the end of this book, but also so very disappointed - not because it was bad, but because I couldn't find out what happens next, until my shipment gets here!
Also, great tension, throughout. I may have to read this one again!! (I hardly ever do that; who has the time? Soooo many books, so little time... lol)
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April 27, 2019:
I’ve just finished the audiobook version of this novel, which is superb. Katherine Kellgren is the narrator of it, and she is phenomenal. I’ve also just recently purchased the audiobook version of this novel (and All Clear) so I can keep them with me for ever, even though I own the hardback versions also. This is how much I adore this novel.
And even though it’s been a few years since I’d read this novel, I still love it a lot. It still kept me spellbound throughout the telling of it all.
Still 5 stars, and recommended to all and sundry. 😁
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Quotes Stephanie Liked
“I’m not studying the heroes who lead navies—and armies—and win wars. I’m studying ordinary people who you wouldn’t expect to be heroic, but who, when there’s a crisis, show extraordinary bravery and self-sacrifice. Like Jenna Geidel, who gave her life vaccinating people during the Pandemic. And the fishermen and retired boat owners and weekend sailors who rescued the British Army from Dunkirk. And Wells Crowther, the twenty-four-year-old equities trader who worked in the World Trade Center. When it was hit by terrorists, he could have gotten out, but instead he went back and saved ten people, and died. I’m going to observe six different sets of heroes in six different situations to try to determine what qualities they have in common.”
― Blackout
― Blackout
Reading Progress
Started Reading
July 12, 2011
– Shelved
July 12, 2011
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Finished Reading
May 28, 2013
– Shelved as:
all-time-favorites
December 13, 2015
– Shelved as:
2011
July 26, 2016
– Shelved as:
borrowed-from-library
July 26, 2016
– Shelved as:
hardback
April 26, 2019
– Shelved as:
audiobooks
April 26, 2019
– Shelved as:
2019
April 26, 2019
– Shelved as:
owned
August 11, 2019
– Shelved as:
part-of-a-series
June 23, 2022
– Shelved as:
owned-2
