BLACKOUT, PART 2

Although I’m sure I did it all the time as a kid, this is the first time in my recorded book history (1993–present) that I’ve read the same book twice in one year. I gobbled it up when it came out in March, but the finer points had evaporated from my mind by the time the continuation, All Clear, was released in October, so I figured I’d better do a reread if I wanted to catch everything—and there’s a lot to catch in Connie Willis’s complex story of three graduate-student historians from 2060 who, while doing their fieldwork in World War II thanks to time travel, become trapped in London during the Blitz and must try not to alter the course of events while fighting for survival and trying to find a way home. I enjoyed it just as much the second time around.