2. If you were the main character in a book you are reading or recently read. Who would you be and how would that character adapt to your life as it is today?
I recently read a book called The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and it was a bit like Alice in Wonderland meets A Wrinkle In Time. I don’t know why this book was on my list, but typically someone somewhere would have highly recommended it. I wish I knew who it was so that I know better than to listen to them the next time they send a book title my way. Time Travel in a book nearly 100% of the time deters me from reading. It just hurts my brain to continuously run through the time travel possibilities and this book was filled with doors that traveled between “space and time”. There were lots of riddles and stories within stories and I must have been driving with the most glazed over look on my face as I made sense of it all on my way to my babysitting job each week.
If I were the main character of that book, my name would be Zack and I’d be lucky to get more than 10 minutes with my family. I would greet them all as they came into the kitchen for dinner and when I exit the kitchen to say…use the bathroom, I would find myself instead at my grandmother’s house from her teen years. Maybe next I’d be on a ship with a great sea captain? Who knows. Eventually, I might find my way back to my family, but they will no longer recognize me because I have come back to a different space and time then I left them. The book was obnoxious. Zack would not have the first clue as to how to adapt to the normalcy on just one very slow time frame.
After finishing the Starless Sea I have gone back to my tried and true genre of historical fiction and am reading Tidelands by Philippa Gregory. I am now Alinor, a poor mother of 2 living on the Tidelands of England in the mid 1600’s while my husband is lost at sea. I have a crush on a priest and it’s looking like my natural talents as a healer might eventually mark me as a witch. I don’t think priests and witches make the best couples. This cannot possibly end well for me.
However, if Alinor could bounce through one of Zack’s time travel doors and join my life, I think she would rather enjoy the comforts of modern civilization. I’ll let her be a witch in exchange for some light housework and cooking…but I suppose I’ll need to see if she survives the Tidelands first. Wish us luck!
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The Prompts:
1. Tell us about your Valentine’s Day tradition.
2. If you were the main character in a book you are reading or recently read. Who would you be and how would that character adapt to your life as it is today?
3. Write about something you wish you were good at.
4. Write a blog post inspired by the word: play.
5. Tell us about the last video game you played.
5. 7 people/places/or things you’d like to give a virtual Valentine to.
John Holton says
I dunno: my stepather was an ex-priest, and he and Mom got along fine…. 🤣
Seriously, though, I can tell that the time travel book is nothing like Doctor Who, so I probably wouldn’t find it interesting. If the kid keeps ending up at Grandma’s house from her teen years. (My Grandma was a teen during World War I.)
Patty says
I’ve managed to get hooked on a Hallmark Channel series, “The Way Home”, about time travel. Must admit that this is one of their better offerings, if you have the chance, I recommend watching it.
Right up your alley, Alinor!!