Crosstalk is part sci-fi and part psychological adventure with a little romance thrown in. This book was a lot of fun to read and had an intriguing premise.

I decided to listen to Connie Willis’s Bellwether while my seventeen-year-old and I were doing a renovation in my library…

Doomsday is gross. And unsettling. And brilliant. I think that my seventeen-year-old boy (who loves Willis) will appreciate it.

Wow. Truly, wow! It is safe to say that Blackout and All Clear are on my top twenty if not top ten list. Thank you, Connie Willis. This one is special. 

With this recipe in mind, she has been writing Christmas stories for years and has pulled them together for this collection of short stories. All of them are deeply human while also being about everyday people. All of them deal with some aspect of humanity that needs the kind of transformation that only the Christ of Christmas can bring. And all of them end well even if it is unclear, while you are reading, how that can possibly happen. But, signature Connie Willis, all of them have a sci-fi twist of some kind as well. And that makes them more unpredictable and, frankly, more fun. 

To Say Nothing of the Dog is pure delight. Connie Willis’s writing is elegant and refined. But it is also deeply informed by theatre and movies.