A review by lizthelittlest
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

4.0

I've seen quite a few reviews critiquing this book as getting bogged down with the minutiae of trying to communicate and find supplies and get real answers to immediate problems (in whatever century). And I have to say that, as someone who sprinted through this book in October of 2020, I have to disagree. Not that this book is filled with minutiae, but that this minutiae bogs it down at all. I thought it gave the story a real and insistent feeling of helpless urgency - something way too familiar to probably everyone right now, during this century's actual pandemic. (Not really a spoiler, but yeah, toilet paper running out has been a huge problem). I can't speak to how I would have felt about this book even 8 months ago, but reading it now, I really enjoyed it, even if I spent most of the book stressed about potential viral transmissions and contact tracing and muttering "timely" every few pages.