{"id":385,"date":"2025-12-12T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/?p=385"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:19:45","slug":"strangers-in-time-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2025\/12\/12\/strangers-in-time-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers in Time &#8211; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"386\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2025\/12\/12\/strangers-in-time-book-review\/strangersintime\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?fit=984%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"984,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"StrangersinTime\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?fit=525%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?resize=525%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?resize=672%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?resize=768%2C1171&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/StrangersinTime.jpg?w=984&amp;ssl=1 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I\u2019ve read another World War II novel. When I read the blurb (I had to look that term up) for this book, I was very intrigued. I find it interesting how people meet, interact and form different types of relationships. It can be something very simple that builds up to something complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this book, the three characters are from very different walks of life. A bookstore owner, a young teenage boy living in an impoverished part of London and an older teenage girl from a well-off family. While living in London during the Blitz, these strangers encounter each other and form a very interesting relationship of sorts. This happens while dealing with personal tragedies as a result of the war and other circumstances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Baldacci provides a vivid description of the people in this book and what they must go through to survive. The journey from beginning to end held my attention and I was almost sad when the story was over. For this reason, I would highly recommend this book. (That shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise, I only review books that I really enjoy. I suppose someday I will review a book I really hated, but that day hasn\u2019t come yet.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some quotes I had to save from the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;What else does one do with books besides read them and then wonder about what one has just read? And, even more pleasurably, what one will read next?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSometimes it simply comes down to the serendipity of whom one meets and when.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I\u2019ve read another World War II novel. When I read the blurb (I had to look that term up) for this book, I was very intrigued. I find it interesting how people meet, interact and form different types of relationships. It can be something very simple that builds up to something complex.\u00a0 In this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2025\/12\/12\/strangers-in-time-book-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strangers in Time &#8211; Book Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72],"tags":[63,37,36,61,60],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-books","tag-goodreads","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wlZw-6d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}