GenreLand discussion

I started Time Travel: A History this year but doubt I'll finish it by the end of the year, so this will probably be my first read in this genre.

I love Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series and was delighted to learn that she's thinking about writing another one.

There are tons of options for this month. What ones do you recommend?

I'm going shopping for more Chickasaw history comics so I can present a paper at a conference in April. Non work related reading? Gotta go with Dr. Who comic books, as available!

I'm going to continue with the All Souls Trilogy and read Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness.

I’m going to read 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Nixing both Dr. Who and Chickasaw comic books due to lack of availability. Going with "Neverwhere" in long form comic book. I listened to the audiobook a few times, so I am interested to see how the graphic novel is different.

I read Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne. I recommend these books all the time at work, so it was great to finally read one of them. Sweet story I can see why early chapter book readers love them.

Jamie wrote: "Nixing both Dr. Who and Chickasaw comic books due to lack of availability. Going with "Neverwhere" in long form comic book. I listened to the audiobook a few times, so I am interested to see how th..."

There's time travel in Neverwhere?

Hello thanks for the group invite! I love Time Travel so starting with the second book of Jodi Taylor’s popular St Mary’s Series.

What's a good, short time travel title? I started Ron Chernow's biography of Grant before Christmas and I'm still only on page 400.

Grant was a time Traveller?

All the Birds in the Sky isn't particularly short, but it's a pretty fast read.

It has time and alternate dimension travel in it.

I just checked out All Clear by Connie Willis. This is a new one for me, but I've enjoyed her other books.

Cleokatra wrote: "I just checked out All Clear by Connie Willis. This is a new one for me, but I've enjoyed her other books."

If you're enjoying All Clear, be sure to have Blackout on deck and ready to go. And don't blame Connie for the weird split into two volumes. It wasn't her idea.

I just finished listening to Time's Edge, the second book in the Chronos Files trilogy. I enjoyed it, but boy, do I regret leaving so much time between the first two books! And it might have helped to remember that there was a supplementary novella between the two. I'll definitely be going back and reading that and the 2.5 novella before proceeding to the final book in the trilogy.

I may dip back into the Outlander series. I started it a while back but put it down and haven't picked it back up. I think I'm in book 3.

Stina wrote: "Cleokatra wrote: "I just checked out All Clear by Connie Willis. This is a new one for me, but I've enjoyed her other books."

If you're enjoying All Clear, be sure to have [book:Bla..."

True confession: I checked out both of them on my eReader. I couldn't tell from my library's description which came first, so I grabbed both.

I realised that a birthday present last month was perfect for this: it's non-fiction, too!
I loved the RI lectures as a kid - popular science to an audience of appreciative schoolchildren in the lecture theatre and on TV. My only disappointment with this is that there aren't many from my childhood - nothing between 1969 and 1977. Lovely archival notes, too - notes and other documents, or Carl Sagan getting his 5 star hotel visit paid for by the RI. I remember his series, though, and it was worth the bill I'd say.
Time travel for some of the subject matter, and also for the "time travel" of nostalgia to my youth...
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That sounds like a great show! And a good book, too!

I just now saw this group and this month's challenge, so it is a bit late to pick a new book or it. As in the last challenge I participated in, I had to twist a few books to find the themes and probably will continue that here. Today I finished William Kennedy's Very Old Bones and will use that for the monthly challenge. Not really time travel in the fantasy/sci fi sense, but it DOES flow back and forth in time.