Audiobook Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) by Connie Willis in the ListenBook app
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Book description
October 12, 2023
Just finished Doomsday Book on audiobook, and I'm still sitting here, the rain tapping the window like the plague bells in Kivrin's time. I'd heard Connie Willis was brilliant-Hugo winner, Nebula queen-but I didn't expect her to make me feel the weight of a 14th-century plague village in my bones. The audiobook? Perfect. The narrator's voice, calm and precise like a scholar's, pulled me straight into Kivrin's panic as she's stranded in the middle of the Black Death. You hear it all: the coughing in the village, the frantic whispers of people who think she's a witch or a saint, the way she tries to be just a quiet student but ends up holding a dying child's hand.
What's brilliant isn't the time travel (though the Oxford details-like the bell-ringing during the epidemic, as the blurb mentions-are chef's kiss), but how Willis makes history feel like it's happening now. Kivrin's fear? Real. The villagers' terror? Raw. And that moment when she uses a simple modern remedy to ease a fever? It's not magic. It's just a human being, alone and scared, doing what she can. You feel her exhaustion, her loneliness, the way she clings to her Oxford textbooks like a lifeline.
I kept thinking about how Willis writes people, not just plots. The way the modern team frantically tries to pull her back while dealing with their own chaos-like the "illogical agenda" of organizing a bell-ringing session mid-epidemic-isn't just funny. It's true. We've all been that person trying to do something when everything's falling apart. And Kivrin? She's not a hero. She's just a girl who listens. She hears the old woman's prayers, the child's fevered rambling, and she answers. That's what made me cry, listening to this on my walk home-how ordinary courage, in the middle of darkness, becomes something holy.
The audiobook's genius is in the small things. The sound of a quill scratching on parchment. The distant toll of a church bell. The way the narrator's voice softens when Kivrin finally finds someone to trust. It's not just about history; it's about how we carry history inside us. Willis doesn't preach. She just lets you sit with Kivrin in that cold stone room, smelling the herbs and the fear, and realize: This is us. This is how we've always been.
I'm not sure I'll ever listen to a bell the same way again. Or feel so grateful for a simple, unremarkable day. Thank you, Connie Willis, for making the past feel like a place we've all been. And thank you, audiobook, for making me feel like I was right there, holding Kivrin's hand.
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