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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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I was originally tempted to just post this whole novel as one giant (and perfect) quotation. We knew it was coming but we behaved inconsistently. We stocked up on supplies-just in case-but sent our children to school, because how do you get any work done with the kids at home? (We were still thinking in terms of getting work done. The most shocking thing in retrospect was the degree to which all of us completely missed the point.) One day, when we look back at […]

“You lived; you will always have lived. Death does not erase your life…If only time could be seen whole.”

Time Travel: A History by James Gleick

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Good, where to start? The reader has parts from the beginning, middle, and end of the book that stand out; out of order out of….TIME! Time Travel is a curiosity of a non-fiction book. It’s almost literary in in its non-fiction meanderings. Explore science fiction, pop culture, physics, psychology, religion, cyberpunk, social media. It’s all here as Gleick tries to make sense of what we mean we talk about time and time travel. Over and over (a time loop) he quotes various experts in philosophy, […]

Time to Talk About Time

Switch by A.S. King

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We have arrived at a fold in space and time. Nothing moves forward. A scientific dilemma yet to be solved fully. You are probably confused. We are confused, too. Ever since time stopped, Truda’s life has turned upside-down. Her mother left the family. Her brother is keeping secrets. She has discovered that she can throw a javelin further than anyone ever has. And her father is building boxes around a mysterious switch in the house. I have never read a book quite like this. It […]

Doctor Strange Explains Why Time Travel is Possible

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

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Ever since I’ve started traveling more for my new job, I’ve gotten back into audiobooks. (I liked them in college because of the long drives to and from school.) Long audiobooks stress me out because of library due dates, so this short four-discer read by a celebrity was perfect for a quick round trip through North Texas. In The Order of Time, theoretical physicist/brainiac Carlo Rovelli poetically and accessibily skims the surface of our understanding(s) of time. He includes a wide but shallow overview of theories […]

If you knew how your actions affected others, would you change them?

An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by JB Priestley

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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays contains, as you might have guessed, An Inspector Calls as well as Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before, and the Linden Tree. Of the collection, An Inspector Calls stands head and shoulders above the rest but they are all of a high standard. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before both deal with time, fate and free will, but of the two I definitely enjoyed the latter the most. The former sees us […]

I somehow never read this as a kid!

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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With all the excitement surrounding the new movie coming out, I wanted to read A Wrinkle in Time again.  I say again, because I was nearly convinced I read it as a child.  Somehow, I did not!  I’m not sure how that happened, because this is right up my alley.  I listened to the audiobook in the car, and it went so quickly!  I loved it by the way.  I already put holds on the rest of the books in the Time Quintet, so look […]



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