November 9, 2024 TIME WARP

It's been a rough week. Alternating between a state of disbelief and depression. When I heard the news, I tried to go into hiberation---for the next four years-- BUT had to get up for work.  I actually wore black from head to toe--reflecting my mood. Yup. We are headed  back to TRUMPVILLE.  APPARENTLY--THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. Let the deportations begin--- get rid of all those people from "shit countries." After all--they are a bunch of rapist and criminals who have been eating our pets and stealing our jobs. NO PRICE IS TOO HIGH. Trump will probably use his secret police to round up all the "enemies from within" too. All those crazy Left Wing Kooks that don't agree with his politics. Maybe he'll even open a prison for his political enemies.  Wouldn't surprise me. Let's just sit back---LET THE CIRCUS BEGIN--and watch the RICH GET RICHER because that's what's gonna happen.  As for me--I've decided to retreat into my own world. Compartmentalize. Get lost in books. Pretend the world is normal because that's all I can do. Hopefully our country will survive the next four years of TRUMPISM. I've only got one question --unless you are in the top one percent---WHAT HAS TRUMP EVER DONE FOR YOU?? Got lost in a really good book last week called The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. Set in the near future, a young female civil servant is offered an incredible job as a "Bridge"--that's too good to be true.   Her job, working for a secret government agency, is to help people from history "expats", who have been transported to the present through time travel, adapt in the modern world. The bridge is assigned to Commander Graham Gore, a Naval officer from 1847, who is shocked by modern society and its conveniences.  Other "expats" are brought to the present--Margaret from the 17th century and Arthur, a WWI officer. Each has their own bridge. After one of the bridges is assassinated, the secret government's real plan comes to light and the other bridges and expats fear for their lives. The Bridge and Gore must then decide whether they should follow orders or choose a different future. This book is many things--including a book about time travel, romance and political intrigue that is often laugh out loud funny as Gore and the other expats try to navigate in a world that makes zero sense to them. The only other thing I'm going to say is that there is a MAJOR twist in this book that I didn't see coming. So if you are into a time traveling--romance--give this one a try.