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All the Time Travel in the World Can’t Save the People You Love

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

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This book by Justin Reynolds was a Kindle deal a while back (and ironically it is on sale again this week so perfect timing) and I found it a charming read to keep me occupied as I journeyed home from Puerto Rico (and tried not to think about all the cold and grey weather awaiting me). From the very beginning of the novel, I realized it was not going to be a typical teen romance because the first sentence is this:  “My face is mashed […]

Ye’ll maybe find a use for yourself.

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

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Many of the book series that I enjoy have novellas or short stories available electronically. I’m not a Kindle person so I generally end up missing out on these smaller literary nuggets that explore secondary characters or flesh out backstories. I bought this when it was published over two years ago, but allowed it to languish on my TBR pile until now. Outlander books take preparation. They are heavy tomes and I need to be ready to brew a cup of tea and snuggle up for a […]

“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein”

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

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On a battlefield on a dying world, Red, an agent for the Agency, finds a letter that reads ‘Burn before reading’. So begins a correspondence with Blue, an agent from the Garden, a rival agency. Both factions are fighting a war within and for time, controlling various strands and pulling threads. Undoing what once had been, creating other stories from nothing. That first letter is all boast and bravado, and so is Red’s response, but as the correspondence continues they share more of themselves with […]

“Beneath the modern political rhetoric and academic theories of history, I had an ancient hope that was indistinguishable from Spiritualism. If my edit took, maybe the good I’d done would outweigh the evil.”

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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I started this book first thing on New Year’s Day, made it about thirty pages in, and then didn’t pick it up again until Sunday morning on the 5th. I don’t know if it was feeling too heavy or what, but I needed to be in the right headspace for it. (It was probably the men’s right’s activists that did it, followed closely by a disturbing murder.) Then I basically binge-read the whole book yesterday morning. To sum the book up badly (and I will […]

Concluding the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles. Volume 28

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 28 by CLAMP

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And so the great Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle read through has come to an end.  Shout out to William Flanagan, who wrote the English translation for all twenty eight volumes, churning out translations to keep pace with the publications in Japan.  At the end of each volume he would include some translation notes, sometimes explaining a cultural norm, or showing the process of how he came to use the translation chosen for a particular section.  The writer/artist collective CLAMP used Tsubasa as a way to mix […]

Time is a River

The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway

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This was a weird one for me.  It has an interesting premise, and it sets up the beginning so well, but then I am not entirely sure where the author was going with it.  On the one hand, she sets up quite a few things that are never resolved so I assume she may have wanted to use this novel as starting off point for a series but it is almost to boring to be a series.  You can’t hint at a lot of interesting […]



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