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Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, Volume 1) (original 2013; edition 2014)

by Jodi Taylor (Author)

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Madeline "Max" Maxwell has stumbled on the dream of a lifetime: a career as a time-traveling historian with St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research. The researchers are under strict orders to observe only--no interaction with the locals is allowed. But from her first mission rescuing artifacts from the Great Library of Alexandria, Max realized that time travel is a dangerous activity and that history--and other historians--will go to elaborate lengths to protect themselves.--… (more)
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Title:Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, Volume 1)
Authors:Jodi Taylor (Author)
Info:Accent Press (2014), 504 pages
Collections:Your library, Kindle
Rating:****
Tags:Kindle, eBook, Fiction, Time Travel, Humor, History, Action - Adventure, Chronicles of St. Mary's, Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 1, Fiction - United Kingdom, Jodi Taylor

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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (2013)

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    Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Aug3Zimm)
    Aug3Zimm: Time travel to the past as part of educational study
  2. 30
    The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (majkia)
  3. 30
    The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (passion4reading)
    passion4reading: Does for librarians what The Chronicles of St Mary's series achieves for historians.
  4. 30
    The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (SimoneA)
    SimoneA: While one is about travelling through time and the other about travelling through books, the atmosphere of these books (and further series) is very similar, with a strong female lead and an amusingly crazy plot and set of side characters.
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    The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg by Eva St. John (LongDogMom)
    LongDogMom: Similiar time travel in that it's a team working together. In St. Mary's it's usually to observe history, while the Quantum Curators are usually sent to an alternate earth to retrieve something. Both are super enjoyable and creative
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    Genrenauts: The Complete Season One Collection by Michael R. Underwood (amanda4242)
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    The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer (wordcauldron)
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    The Continuum by Wendy Nikel (LongDogMom)
    LongDogMom: Both fun time travel with similar stule
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    The Grandmother Paradox by Wendy Nikel (LongDogMom)
    LongDogMom: Both time travel books with a fresh and fun style and likeable characters
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    The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (lavaturtle)
    lavaturtle: A close-knit group of quirky academics has ill-advised adventures in the pursuit of knowledge, as part of an organization that operates in secret and sometimes deals with ruthless opposition.
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This book marked a new era for me as a reader. I have been recommending it to everyone that will listen. The Chronicles of St. Mary's series is great for fans of Doctor Who. It is a low-tech science fiction with a fun relatable main character to be enjoyed by all. My dad loves the series, too! ( )
  vampireacademia | Mar 8, 2024 |
Someone should have warned me that I'd need to strap myself in before picking up this book, because whoa, what a ride! I adored everything about St. Mary's: the quirky team, the time-travel elements, the interesting and inevitable politics while navigating academia.

Also, Jodi Taylor is a fabulous writer. She has a knack for humour and wit that's hard to find, but she tempers those lighthearted tendencies with some genuinely dark and emotional moments. Her prose is beautiful and sparkles with British charm.

I'm a huge fan of Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel series, and this book brought me back to the first time I read DOOMSDAY BOOK, over two decades ago. Like Willis' work, this is a love letter to history and brings different time periods to life with a vividness that's almost tangible. The trips back in time are without a doubt the highlight of the book. (Although I have to say I also really enjoyed the romantic subplot - it's handled wonderfully and felt incredibly realistic.)

I do wish Taylor had stayed clear of info-dumping... there's a chapter where she threw in everything she knows about dinosaurs, and that got a little tedious. But those moments are few and far between, thankfully. I also thought the bad guys came across as stereotypical caricatures, but given just how damn propulsive this book was, I was able to overlook that. I can't wait to read the next book in the series! ( )
  Elizabeth_Cooper | Feb 3, 2024 |
A good easy summer read. ( )
  knersus | Jan 23, 2024 |
I liked the premise of time traveling historical researchers, and the book had a promising start. But I felt the story went off the rails about halfway through, as characters started doing things that seemed unreasonable for the sake of moving the plot along. It bothered me that there's a high death rate among the time travelers, and they KNOW this, yet they never take serious precautions, nor try to time travel to an earlier date to prevent those deaths. Time travel stories always require some hand-waving, but this eventually got in the way of enjoying the story. ( )
  yaj70 | Jan 22, 2024 |
Great fun! Don't expect hardcore time travelling philosophy, do expect crazy explosions, contrary historians and humorous action. ( )
  zjakkelien | Jan 2, 2024 |
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'History is just one damned thing after another.'
Arnold Toynbee
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There have been two moments in my life when everything changed.
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Madeline "Max" Maxwell has stumbled on the dream of a lifetime: a career as a time-traveling historian with St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research. The researchers are under strict orders to observe only--no interaction with the locals is allowed. But from her first mission rescuing artifacts from the Great Library of Alexandria, Max realized that time travel is a dangerous activity and that history--and other historians--will go to elaborate lengths to protect themselves.--

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