Well, let me tell you: a mishmash of styles (as usual) and one of the most fabulous books I’ve read in a very very long time, that’s what! The most fabulous one is Passage by Connie Willis. If you don’t know her, you should. I first read her in novella form - Inside Job and All About Emily are incredible. Sassy, snappy, quirky, clever and just plain fun - full of allusions and references from history, pop culture, sci-fi… I loved her so much I decided to try her novels. The first (To Say Nothing of the Dog) was just not for me - despite a fabulous title and great premise full of time travel and Willisian quirkiness and fabulous reviews/blurbs, I just could not get into it. Undaunted, I tried again - yes, her novellas were THAT good - and this one, well, this one is amazing. Passage is about NDEs - near death experiences - and the people who study them (and live through them), but it’s also about the quest for meaning in life - and death. It’s beautifully written full of incredibly real characters who live and breathe and practically jump off the page. I cannot say enough good things about it - and I’m not even done. I’ve just hit the big plot jump alluded to in the jacket blurb, and it’s killing me to not sit and read it through to the end, but time, blogs, and kids wait for no book…
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