Time Travel: Who would you like to meet, from past or the future?

There is something about time travel that excites the imagination and brings joy to one. Maybe that is why I love fiction so much.

I can live vicariously through the characters in the books. Recently I have been embedded with Cork Corcoran in the William Kent Krueger series of mystery/detective stories. They take place in the Midwest, Minnesota specifically, so it’s old home week.

In the last book I read all of this series, a key character is murdered. Such a shock and disappointment! But since I’m reading them out of order, I can return to an earlier book and she will be alive again. (I know, I know, it’s fiction and she never was really real.)

I also read some historical mysteries of England after the First World War with a female detective, Kate Shackleton, by Francis Brody. It qualifies as a copy mystery, and she always figures out the puzzle of “whodunit.”

She is interesting, has good cohorts: a retired cop, her Father, currently a cop, her housekeeper, who knows the current gossip and can fill in undercover to find out more, and a ragtag group of servants, children, etc., to rise to the occasions required.

My latest novel stars an iconoclastic nun, sister Holiday, who has tattoos, smokes, and solves crimes.

The book is “Scorched Grace” by Margot Douaihy, don’t ask me to pronounce the vowel heavy last name. I’ve only started it, so can’t recommend it yet.

Also reading “Leaving Norway” for the Daughters of Norway book club, and so far it is a soap opera in the making. I’ve been told it has some steamy sex scenes in it, as well. We shall see. So far, the victim is someone known to our nun, and the death involves a fall from on high and a fire.

Sorry that is as far as I have gotten.

As to the prompt, asking me to pick ONE person to meet is just too final. I like to leave my opinions open to possibility.

In economics, the concept of “opportunity cost” applies; that is if you pick one thing, you have not picked all of the others.

Plus, I just don’t like making decisions about favorites. I would have to judge who I’ld like to meet and not feel self-conscious with. Books are easier and

I’d rather know that I’ll be enthralled in the next good book by characters I can empathize with and care about.

They won’t judge me. When the book is one of a series, all the better, to engage more often with, without the sadness of finishing the book and saying goodbye.

So enough of this, it’s time to reach for a book and get lost in another place, another time, with other interesting and unique individuals. I need to find out what happens next.