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PoindexterOglethorpe

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34. Bless this House by Norah Lofts.

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 04:48 PM

Apr 2019

It's another one of her novels about a house in her fictitious part of England, built in 1577. If follows various families who lived there, and will end in 1953 when Elizabeth II becomes queen. It's on interlibrary loan so I need to finish it in a couple more days.

Also An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim. In 1981 a terrible flu epidemic is killing lots of people. But not too far in the future time travel has been invented, and the intention was to send a flu vaccine back and prevent it from happening, but that didn't work. This story is about a woman who takes a contract to work in the future so here boyfriend can get medical care. Only instead of landing in 1993 she lands in 1998. So far so good.

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Bless this House by Norah Lofts. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #34

Meh, 93 - 98... hermetic Apr 2019 #35

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