Lincoln's Dreams

I usually love Connie Willis, but this novel failed to click for me. I had several problems: first, Willis asks readers to sympathize with Robert E. Lee, a lot. But even though Americans of my generation are kind of trained, from elementary school on up, to think of Lee as not such a bad guy, my sym......more

So this broke my heart. It has left me thinking of many things, of Robert E. Lee and Traveller and the horror of a war that ended 153 years ago and still eats away at the American psyche now. I read this many years ago, my copy is from 1992 and back then I didn’t have money to buy books and then nev......more

I had a few problems with this book, but not because the American Civil War is an unfamilar subject (being British, I am far more familiar with the English Civil War which took place in the 17th century). The male protagonist is Jeff, an historical researcher who works for a somewhat eccentric novel......more

I found the premise of this novel to be incredibly fascinating, and dove right into the book. Dreams have always been fascinating to me, and reading about what others think they mean, and why they have them is also - if you'll pardon the overuse of a single word - fascinating. I enjoyed this book thr......more

Annie dreams of things she should have no knowledge of, Antietam, Chancellorsville,and Gettysburg. Her dreams are horrifyingly real. Her psychiatrist believes Annie is hiding something deep in her subconsciousness. His former roommate sees it differently. He works as a historical researcher for a wr......more