Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

As the year comes to a close, we are thinking about time passing and how the year has flown by. This week, read a book related to time... however you may interpret that!

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Listopia: Books with a Unit of Time in the Title
Listopia: Covers with Clocks and Watches

ATY Group Listopia

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Optional Questions
1. What are you reading for this category?
2. How was it related to time?

I'm planning on This Is How You Lose the Time War, which is apparently about two rival agents in a time war.

This is How You Lose The Time War is a possibility for me too. Another on my list of possibilities is Time After Time.

I have a lot of options with the word time in the title but I'm thinking about going with My Century by Günter Grass.

I don't think I can wait till week 52 to read This Is How You Lose the Time War but I think I'll be going down the time travel route.

I thought Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception was an interesting look at how we perceive time if anyone is looking for a non-fiction option.

Ellie wrote: "I don't think I can wait till week 52 to read This Is How You Lose the Time War but I think I'll be going down the time travel route.

I thought [:Time Warped: Unlocking the Mys..."

I have so many options but the [book:This Is How You Lose the Time War|36516585] sounds so intriguing.

Right now I am planning to read The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson and Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (because the word "clock" is in the title of both books). I might do something more creative, though.

I'm planning to do The Clockmaker's Daughter for this one.

I'm thinking of reading Every Other Weekend. It's not quite the kind of connection to time that I was thinking of when I saw the prompt, but I think it works.

At first glance I thought I had nothing on my shelves, but then I got creative with my titles...

Another Time, Another Place
How Late it Was, How Late
My Century
My Childhood
The Forgotten Hours

I'll be reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, but if you're a Terry Pratchett fan, Thief of Time is one of my favorites.

Kelly - Thanks for the Thief of Time recommendation. I have it on my book shelf and it is one of my top choices! I’ve only read one other book in the Discworld series.

Kelly , I have read no discworld. Does it matter if you start in the middle?

I just finished Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. for this prompt. This story relates to time in that on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. a global timequake takes place, and the universe decides to revert back to 1991 and replay the decade.

I think that I would have enjoyed reading this book more so than listening to it, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless. It is a very unique, autobiographical novel featuring Vonnegut's alter ego, Kilgore Trout.
Kelly, I hope that you enjoy it, too.

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin

How was it related to time?
By the title.

I read The Gone World, which is about a detective traveling back and forth in time trying to solve a brutal murder. It also involves aliens and the end of the world, and the main character is an amputee, like me! It was an incredible book, I loved it (except for the epilogue, which was kind of a letdown).

Lizzy wrote: "Kelly , I have read no discworld. Does it matter if you start in the middle?"

You can read them in any order!

I read The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin. A creepy thriller but I laughed out loud in places. 5 stars! I chose because the word "hours" is in the title.

1. What are you reading for this category? The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
2. How was it related to time? The book skillfully wove together multiple threads, multiple time lines to create a beautiful tapestry. On the one hand, there was the historical thread/timeline of the carnival/circus. Then there was the thread/story line of Frank/Dan/Paulina. Finally, woven throughout are the seven days that Simon has to figure out how to save his sister.

I love time travel stories. Some I recommend are

Replay
The Time Traveler's Wife
Doomsday Book
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Rewinder
The Door Into Summer (a fun story, but be aware there are some dated/inappropriate attitudes toward women)
The humorous series about St. Mary's that starts with
Just One Damned Thing After Another

and to be exhaustive, there is The Time Traveler's Almanac, a big collection of stories

I am probably reading This Is How You Lose the Time War, since I have the audiobook

I am read Time's Arrow by Martin Amis. The protagonist is living in a body that is experiencing time backwards, though he doesn't understand that time is going backwards.

It was a weird book. Didn't like it very much. Wasn't sure what the author's point was.

1)Timeline by Michael Crichton
2)They travel back in time to France in the 1300s. They also have a timer counting down on how long they have before they need to go back.

Heather wrote: "1)Timeline by Michael Crichton
2)They travel back in time to France in the 1300s. They also have a timer counting down on how long they have before they need to go back."

I read that a while ago. It was a fun read

I read Shada. It's the novelization of a "lost" (read never finished filming) classic Doctor Who episode. Since the Doctor is a Time Lord I figured it would count. As a Doctor Who fan it's been on my TBR list for a while.

I just finished My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
It goes back and forth between 2017 and when the main character was a teenager.

5 Stars. Read this book!

What are you reading?
Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

How does it relate to time?
It's about time-travel

What are you reading?
The Time Machine, by HG Wells


How does it relate to time?
It’s about time travel.

This is a nice chronological compilation of feminist history.

This is one of the few prompts that I read the book in my original plan! I read My Century by Günter Grass.
How is it related to time? Each short chapter represents one year in 20th century Germany.

1. What are you reading for this category?

2. How was it related to time?
Is related to time because is told by two different timelines.

Well, I started This Is How You Lose the Time War and couldn't get into it. The characters are more like archetypes than people and everything is on a grand scale. Maybe it's supposed to be like a video game? The language is flowery but doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I will have to find something else.

1. What did you read for this prompt? Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
2. How did the book relate to time? The book is a Science Fiction,Fantasy, Short Story collection. I think all the stories dealt with time in different forms. The first story was time travel. Some dealt with the passage of time. Some were set in the future. Most of the stories had past and future events colliding. I gave the book 4 stars for the depth of research and creativity. Sometimes I felt like my head was going to explode if I thought any harder about a certain story.

Sherri wrote: "1. What did you read for this prompt? Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
2. How did the book relate to time? The book is a Science Fiction,Fantasy, Short Story collection. I think all the stories dealt with..."

Sherri, I'm currently reading Exhalation: Stories for this prompt and I LOVE it. It's a perfect fit and I agree that all the stories deal with time in one way or another. I've been reading it out loud and it's been especially enjoyable that way - Chiang is such a gifted writer and since so many of the stories are written as though they are being "told" in one way or another, it's really added to my experience. Did you have a favorite? I still haven't read the last story, but I was especially entranced by The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate and Omphalos.

I liked The Merchant and the Alchemist’s. I caught myself not paying attention during Exhalation so when he started talking about dissecting his own brain I was like, what is going on here? I found The Lifecycle of Software Objects long and sad. I guess my favorite was The Truth Of Fact, The Truth of Feeling because the protagonist turned out not to be a nice person. The story didn’t go where I thought it was. All the stories are well written & make you think.

I read Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster and I couldn't put the darn thing down. It was horrifying and thrilling and has a home now on my "Nightmare Fuel" bookshelf.

The title relates to time, though I originally stumbled on it while looking for "new york times notable" books.

1. What are you reading for this category? The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
2. How was it related to time? Involves time travel

I've chosen to read Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand

I'm gonna go with The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas W. Phelan. The author talks a lot about how much time moms put into being moms and wives and how to manage that better.

I read Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon for this prompt, the first of Verne's Extraordinary Adventures. Like all his books, a blend of educational text and derring do, and although tending to be rather heavier on the educational side than his later books, a good read none the less.

I read Time Travel Adventures Of The 1800 Club. It was good for a self-publish book. Just a fun time travel book.

I read Three Weeks With Lady X by Eloisa James. Time is the weeks the main characters spend together.

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2. How was it related to time?
Well, it's a clock. There was time pressure to solve the mystery. I had watched the movie on a lark and then decided I should read the book as well. As cool as the movie was, the book was so much better!

I used The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It is time-bending to say the least. I don't want to say more as it would be a spoiler.

1. What are you reading for this category? The Last Mrs. Summers
2. How was it related to time? Well, it mentions summer which is a time of year. And if you get rid of the Mrs in the title, it's Last summer. (I"m at that time of the year where I have to work to shoehorn books into categories!)

I will be reading Golden Afternoon,part two of the autobiography of M M Kaye. It is related to time in 2 ways, the time period 'afternoon' and the fact that it covers a period in her life.

I read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and it relates to time because time travel is a major plot point in the book.

1. What are you reading for this category? My Dark Vanessa
2. How was it related to time? It takes place in the past and the present.

I'm reading Tomorrow by Damian Dibben, about an immortal dog's quest through Europe to find his beloved master. His fanciful journey spans over two hundred years, beginning in the 15th century."Tomorrow we begin again" is his mantra.

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read Time in Between.


2. How was it related to time?
I went for the obvious--time is in the title. It's about the time between the Spanish Civil War and WWII.

I read one book that focused on a very short time period - the time it (supposedly) takes your brain to shut down after death:
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

and one that covers thousands of years:
This Is How You Lose the Time War