jay’s Reviews > The Ministry of Time > Status Update

hate, hate this book so much; it’s the best book ever written but it makes me SICK; someone invent time travel so that we can stop it from existing

i feel sick

i want this to never end but for mental health reasons i need this to be over

“I can’t manage it exactly without a sextant,” he said. “But I wanted to be able to orient myself.” “So that, in the event of London flooding when the ice caps melt, you can sail to safer waters?” “So that I will know where I was when I met you.”

need to stop reading for the rest of the day or i’ll kill myself

”I could have written to you without including them; after all, the things that happen between lovers are lost to the work of history anyway. But I wrote it down because I need you to bear witness to it. He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”

i hate this book

sex scene so gripping, i held my kindle barely an inch away from my face and read with a focus and intensity that is unusual for me

i got what i wanted but damn at what cost

“You’ve been here for nearly a year, then,” I said. “Yes.” “I’m glad you’ll get to see this garden in the spring before you move.” He touched the place on the snowdrop where I’d laid my fingers. “Yes,” he said, and there was, as there so often was, nothing in his voice.

i’m sad

oh this quiet sadness…

great times are being had in the jay household, which is unusual for us