To Say Nothing of the Dog

I have no idea why this book was titled To Say Nothing of the Dog, except that there is a dog, named Cecil, about whom quite a bit IS said. All in all it was an interesting book about time travel. The jist of it is that the main character and the woman he falls in love with, a condition he blames on "time lag", have to go back in time to correct something they think she changed, but actually what she did (take a cat out with her) happened to correct something that another time traveler did. Get it? I thought so.

Generally, the plot is interesting, but the constant references to time-lag and "slippage" and other time traveler jargon got annoying. There's also this lady back in Victorian England who is really into psychics and gets really annoying.

I read this for my book club and even though I missed this month's meeting I plodded along and finished it. Overall it wasn't *hard* to read, but it got on my nerves quite often. I'll read almost anything and I enjoy 95 percent of what I read. This fell into the other 5 percent. I keep feeling like maybe there was a secret decoder ring somewhere that would make all the pieces come together, but they just didn't. At least not for me.