Lenore – thanks for the additional suggestions; these should keep me for a while

You should also check out My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen. It’s tons of fun with time travel from Victorian Denmark to modern day London.

I, too, loved Rocky and Bulwinkle. However, for me, I watched the originals. Ah, the days of great Saturday morning cartoons.

I like the re-decorating over at the *Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict* site (www.janeaustenaddict.com); I’ll have to pop back over to get an update on the sequel/parallel/companion story of Jane Mansfield in Courtney’s world. I can’t wait to see what challenges (and fun) she encounters in Los Angeles.

I do want to see those Peabody cartoons, though. Right now! I don’t think I’ve ever seen those before.

Here is my offering to your list. Not a novel, but fascinating if anyone’s interested in the scientific foundation of time travel fantasies (and I certainly am): Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos. He’s a physicist but writes in a very accessible manner. Does things like uses Simpson’s characters to tell a story that illustrates how wormholes work. Fascinating stuff.

bermudaonion – no, don’t feel that way! Sesame Street started when I was in Kindergarten, and Oscar the Grouch was ORANGE then. My kids didn’t believe me, but I confirmed it with a Google search (like the Oracle, the font of knowledge … Google and Wikipedia )