Lightning

I needed something I could count on for the plane to Chicago, so instead of taking a Kindle full of potential not good reads, I grabbed my own, worn copy of Lightning. It did not disappoint. I first read this when I was 12 or 14. I loved it. I think it was one of the first books I ever read about time travel. Then I read this again in my 20's when I was a new mom and a little overwhelmed with life. Now, considerably older (haha), I have read it again.

It's a good story, but I'm a different me. The idea of a knight in white, shining (kind of literally, here) armor does nothing for me. I may even be repelled by it, if it were not for the things I still love about it: the fast pacing (man, this book moves quick!), the beautiful relationship between Thelma and Laura, and-hello- time travel. Yes, it's pop culture references are crazy out of date (in fact, some of the pop culture stuff was out of date IN 1989).

Every time I reread an old favorite I fear I'm going to hate it or it wont be how I remembered, but then I also think of Jo Walton (a hero of mine) who rereads all of the time.