BAM #1

So my friend the Devil Librarian came up with a fairly brilliant idea about a thematic online Book A Month. 

Outlander

Diana Gabaldon

This one was fortuitous because I had just finished Outlander by Diana Galbaldon.  This is the story of Claire and Jamie, two people forced into marriage after knowing each other about a month.  It's the story of their romance and their love and their passion set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rising of 1745.  It's also the story of how Claire, who stepped through a stone circle while collecting flowers in the Scottish Highlands after World War II, has to come to terms with the time shift and how very different life is from the 1940s to the 1740s.  She has to reconcile her understanding of genealogy (Frank, her husband in "her time", is very into his family history) with the reality of meeting people who were, to her, names on a chart, especially when one looks very much like Frank. 
It's very much a story about time - historical fiction and romance, fantasy, realistic fiction.  The series - well, at least the first 3, they go downhill after that - are very good reads with wonderful descriptions of all the time periods they cover.  Brain candy, yes, but also stuffed with the occasional gem of a line.

Worth reading.