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Have you been watching Outlander,
the movie series based on Diana Gabaldon’s books? Wow. Is it ever fascinating!
I read the books when they first came out. Even though I wasn’t crazy about
historical romances, I love a good time travel. In Outlander, Claire is transported from post-World War II to 18th century
Scotland. She desperately wants to return to her own time and her husband with
whom she’s just been reunited after being separated by the war.
I don’t remember the details of Outlander as much as I do the general feeling of the book. So the
movie series is like discovering it anew. Hubs enjoys it, too—more for the Scottish
history (did I mention his grandfather came from Scotland?) than the
characters. I do remember some things and it’s killing me not to reveal them.
LOL I don’t want to spoil it for him.
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My all-time favorite time travel movie is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where
Kirk and crew save the whales and their 23rd century world. Fish-out-of-water
(no pun intended) stories are always interesting and often comical. Maybe that’s
why I enjoyed that movie so much—the humor. Like Jessie in my first book Switched, who sleeps through her
favorite movie, I can recite most of the dialogue. If it’s on TV, I’ll watch
it. Hubs will go downstairs to his workshop.
Time travel stories always pose the same questions—will she (or he) return to her own time? will she want to? Have you ever wondered what you
would do in that situation? Would you want to stay? In many of the time travel
books that were popular in the early 1990s, the main character always found her
true love. Then either she stayed or he came forward to her time. A book I read
through the night (just couldn’t put down) was Jude Deveraux’s A Knight in Shining Armor. Tears and
joy. What a gripping story.
If time travel
could exist, what time period would you want to travel to?
If you haven’t discovered Outlander, it’s on Starz on
Saturdays at 9pm Eastern Time. If you have On Demand, you can catch up on
previous episodes.
