'To Say Nothing of the Dog' by Connie Willis

To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel #2), Connie Willis (3.0)

This is the second time travel book by Ms. Willis. Set a few years beyond the time of ‘Doomsday Book’, time travel has been highjacked by a rich sponsor in order to rebuild a cathedral with all the details confirmed by many historians going back multiple times to before it was bombed in WWII. When the hero of the book makes too many trips, he has a time travel sickness and it sent back farther (to the late 1800’s) to rest in those bucolic times. This book is a much lighter and funnier companion to the plague themed ‘Doomsday Book’. I liked the juxtaposition of modern-day people in Victorian Oxford, but it was a bit too loose with the time travel concept – people were popping in and out in a very non-serious manner.