This is another John Bellairs novel I hadn’t read as a child, and I can’t say I missed anything. Professor Childermass, who teaches history, has often been moved to tears over the plight of the people of 15th-century Constantinople, some of whom took refuge in the Church of Holy Wisdom when the Turks besieged the city, and were slaughtered. When he discovers a time-travel machine in his basement, the Professor conceives a nutty plan to go back in time and rescue the people in the city.
I definitely am not the person to have patience with this book. Could any historian possibly be so concerned about the individual fates of the people in the period he studies? The whole premise of the book was absurd – and even the two boys, Johnny and Fergie, realized perfectly well what a ridiculous plan it was. This is one of those times when Bellairs’s books are just not readable for anyone over the age of eight.
PoodleRat
I definitely am not the person to have patience with this book. Could any historian possibly be so concerned about the individual fates of the people in the period he studies? The whole premise of the book was absurd – and even the two boys, Johnny and Fergie, realized perfectly well what a ridiculous plan it was. This is one of those times when Bellairs’s books are just not readable for anyone over the age of eight.
PoodleRat
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