Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's series

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Boy-oh-boy. The book has history, alternating funny and dark moments, some memorable characters, more history and lots and LOTS of timey-wimey stuff! How on Earth could I not have loved it?! :D What a mess. A glorious, glorious mess. Let no one ever say that Just One Damned Thing After Another is a book that fails to live up to its title . . . . These books are so perfectly bingeable. (B&N Sci-fi Blog) There is just enough adult themes to temper the humour, and although it does require a bit of a stretched belief model, I do recommend it.

After writing her debut novel, Just One Damn Thing After Another, she sent it initially to the Writer’s Workshop (which now is called Jericho Writers), where she got many good pointers on improving her work. Taylor, April (2 September 2014). "Interview with comedy/history writer Jodi Taylor". Luke Ballard, Detective, Apothecary and Elemancer keeping the Tudors safe at Hampton Court Palace . Retrieved 4 August 2017. Just One Damned Thing After Another appeared on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list on 21 January 2016 at #74. [8] It earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called it "a carnival ride" in a "world ... depicted in lush detail". [9] The review in Library Journal lauded the book's "appealing cast of characters", with "plenty of humor, lots of action, and even a touch of romance". [10] Bibliography [ edit ] The Chronicles of St Mary's [ edit ]

If you have not read the book, don't read this, it is not the book, you will love the book. If you have read the book, run. I know there are folks who buy a book because of its cover. I got this one because of its title--I just couldn't resist it! Besides, time travel is 'in' right now and often can be very entertaining. The following are the earliest occurrences of this phrase that I have found, up to July 1909—cf. note: The title is a reference to a misquote from historian Arnold J. Toynbee. The misquote is that “History is just one damned thing after another” but the actual thing he said was:

It is better to be a “has been” than a “never was,” says Uncle Joseph, and adds “What is life, anyway, but one doggoned, golbinged, dodrotted thing after another !!!***???!!!???!! anyhow?” There is a lot going on in this story, and it is one of those wild ride type of stories that never lets up for a minute. While first-person-singular doesn’t always work, in this case it’s brilliant. Max and St. Mary’s deal with so much ambient chaos that viewing it all through the eyes of one single person pulls the reader into the world and into the story. There is so much going on that any kind of omniscience would be too much.The first book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea. Would you consider the audio edition of Just One Damned Thing After Another to be better than the print version?

Just One Damned Thing After Another was a wild roller coaster ride! It’s a time travel tale, but doesn’t care to get hung up on the theory or mechanics of it. The plot careens wildly around from place to place and event to event, and I just raced around with it. Mostly it’s about the adventures ― explosions! dinosaurs! conspiracies! ― but there’s occasionally some deeper introspection, though Jodi Taylor never lets it get in the way of the story. Thankfully the author releases at least one full-length book every year and a few short novellas in between to keep us going as well. In short: Excellent fun for the reader in need of fun, thrills, and a larger sense of significance that can easily be ignored if the mood is light. Free. Now, what on earth are you waiting for? Free! Go! GO!Over all, I found the story enjoyable and a fun read. The heroine is surprisingly able and competent to handle herself in difficult situations and to save the day for her colleagues. I found this a bit incongruous with the narrator's particular British accent, in that I just could not imagine someone who talked like that punching someone in the face or being rough and tough enough to carry the story. Yet, Max was just that kind of heroine. I guess you just can't judge a book by its accent! New York, July 24.—The Isabelle d’Armand Chapter of the Society for the Improvement of the Working Conditions of the Chorus Girls of America had its first annual outing and airing yesterday […]. I don't even know how to rate this book. One star, yes. Uninspired cast/performance, yes. Bad script, yes. A word about Jodi Taylor, she is one of the best writers of dialog out there, but these idiots changed it and left out the best lines. I didn't like this book? performance? whatever this thing is. And the sound is bloody awful too. For the movie please get a good writer. Why don't I know how to rate this? Because it is Jodi and Max and I love them, and it is a good story, just not this time. The phrase first occurs in this unsigned epigram, published in the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) of Friday 5 th March 1909:

The Max and Leon romance was utterly terrible. all the subtle warmness of the beginning of their relationship seemed to be surgically removed from this script and what was put in its place was utterly cringe-worthy. Leon sounded like a dirty and cold-hearted old man, which is totally at odds for how he is in the book. Markham comes across as a whiner instead of a highly intelligent and resourceful smartarse and Peterson seems to be there for comic relief only. Hold on,’ said Chief Farrell. ‘I’m duty officer this week and I want to see if the fire alarms go off.’ L. L. La Pierre—I spent my forty-seventh birthday on Wednesday in contemplation of the thought that life is just one damn thing after another.

When she started writing, Jodi Taylor anticipated St. Mary’s to consist only of one book. In her words, she expected the team to “die horribly in the last chapter.” However, as she kept fleshing out the story, Jodi realized that there is enough material for at least a second book. And so, the Chronicles of St. Mary’s series began. And now, we have close to 20 Jodi Taylor books with several short stories and novellas included in multiple series. In conclusion, the saying emerged in print in multiple places in 1909. The author Lilian Bell placed it in a novel, but the adage was displayed on a wall sign without ascription. The earliest newspaper appearances in March 1909 printed the words without attribution. Based on current information QI would label the saying anonymous. the overuse of sound effects. the overuse of screaming. The extended "scenes" that i just, for the love of god, wanted to end.