Books by author: Connie Willis

Doomsday Book has a terrific premise (future historians have found a way to travel back in time to the time periods they study) and a decent plot outline (heroine is trapped; her colleagues struggle to save her), but I really struggled to finish this novel. It is dreadfully slow, and the "comedy of manners" thread with the American bell-ringers did not work for me at all. It read to me like a novel from the 60s rather than the 90s.

It won both the Hugo and the Nebula, so it must be pretty good on some level. I guess I'll chalk it up to a matter of taste.