Chapter One Hundred Five: Passage

Wow!  As per usual, I've let too much time elapse between my previous post and the present time.  Anyway, I re-read Passage by Connie Willis (one of my all-time favorite authors) a few weeks ago now, and I was really into it.  The main characters caught me right from the beginning, even though there isn't much action at the book's start.  I usually find her protagonists immediately likable, which is certainly the case in Passage, and because I like them I want to know what happens to them. If there isn't much suspense at the book's beginning, however, it quickly increases once one of the main characters agrees to participate in the experiment she is helping to administer.  Things get very strange and a bit terrifying pretty quickly after that!  Without giving away any plot points, let me just say that about halfway through this pretty long book, I always find myself sobbing, and that sobbing continues intermittently while I'm reading the second half of this novel.  I find it to be a pretty powerful book.  Even though it makes me sob, I really enjoy reading it every time I come back to it.