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This was really not for me. It was a friend‘s pick for my IRL book group, and it really should have come with ALL the trigger warnings: graphic violence, sexual assault, abuse, murder, and abortion: this one‘s got it all.

Trigger-heavy content aside, the writing itself is engaging and propulsive, and I found its musings on history and time travel philosophy interesting. But honestly, I think Newitz was trying to do too much here. She juggles ⤵️

3✨This was really well written, and thought out. I received this book in a book box as a surprise, so not one I would have picked for myself. Giving it a chance I like that it had to do with women‘s rights and not all guys were the bad guys… well not all the time. It has a heavy focus on woman, abortion, and men who possess or use women. It is set in an alternate reality where time travel is possible and these jumps are to learn or to improve.

The only way to spend a January weekend 🐾

This was great. Characters use time travel to change sentiments over time, in an alternate timeline for earth. The story revolves around edits to the timeline to improve women's rights (abortion, but not just) and the modern year is set in 2022. Reading it in August 2022 after the recent supreme court case made it hit harder than I expect it did when written, and it spurred me to learn some real history. On that note, fuck Comstock.

I first met Annalee at BEA when I saw a poster of their book Autonomous with blurbs from William Gibson & Neal Stephenson—recommendation enough for me! We chatted & then I later saw Annalee on tour, went out for drinks with them & Charlie Jane Anders & now I never miss Annalee when they are on tour. Sometimes those blurbs on the covers really do matter!

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Getting kind of weird and hard to follow but I‘m persevering.

Image: Riley helping me spread out quilt batting.

Everything about this book sounds right up my alley! Time traveling riot grrls changing the timeline to defend womens rights? Sign me up!!!

(Pic—we drove out to the lake today just to see the water.)

I expected a time travel adventure but got a diatribe on the patriarchy with huge neon militant pro-feminism signs. The biggest problem I saw is the story was driven by themes (misogyny, gender politics + others) instead of by character or plot. Attempting to create a story based on every systemic & political issue facing women does not create a coherent or interesting story. And the time travel aspect failed. No science in this so-called SciFi.

#GroupQ #Round13 #LMPBC
These are my choices. There was one more book, but @ozma.of.oz had already read it so I covered it with the TBR sticker.

What say you?

Fully vaxxed & relaxed 😌🦋
& Happy Easter!!! 🐰🐣🌅✝️

Had a pretty great wknd... bfast w the sisters & son, a very pleasant & productive Barnes trip (here‘re 3 of my finds), an indulgent lunch, home to find this beautiful card from @ElizaMarie , a relaxing evening, this morning w the family, church (still online for us ☺️), Easter egg hunt for bugga, grocery & ham, & now time for some reading.

Hope your Easter & your days are calm & peaceful!

I don‘t really do chocolate so hubby always says what do you want for Easter. A book I always say. This is the book(s).
My #weeklyforecast will probably come from these.
The Hobb is to complete the trilogy (again) of illustrated editions.
Happy Easter to those that do Easter. Happy Sunday to all. ♥️

Absolutely loving this book so far. I took a break from it when “Chain of Iron” came in. Such an interesting blend of genres, and I must say I‘m on a bit of a feminist kick lately.

I‘m only reading fiction right now. I have a lot of nonfiction on my TBR. But I just can‘t right now. Maybe after the election. Fingers and toes crossed the country understands the severity of the issues at sake, Democracy, for example.
#gotv #democracy #vote #rbg #fiction #nonfiction #election2020 #bidenharris

Just realized I never reviewed this one. This was mostly an audiobook for me but I bought the hardback to finish it.

Newitz‘s speculative premise here - a world in which ancient time machines pepper the earth & where the timeline is ever open to ‘edits‘ is astonishingly original - even for the genre. Their politics are ferocious & unapologetically feminist & that drives the core story of the book. It won‘t be for everyone, but I really loved it.

This was a very interesting time travel novel focused on smashing the patriarchy, familial abuse, and the audiobook features a song performed by a live band.

This is an interesting book. I suppose a little like Recursion, it has time travel. It goes back and through time and the two main characters tell their stories in alternate chapters. The essence of the book is that a group of men are trying to destroy women's rights. A group of women called Daughters of Harriet are trying to stop this from happening. It is very gripping and quite franic read! #books

This is not the first Newitz I've read, but I keep running into the same thing. The stories are good but they're just much darker than advertised. I wasn't expecting the huge underlying message in here of violence against women and the erasure of our voices. It wasn't an unwelcome message but it wasn't what I thought I had picked up to read. If you enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale though, this might be the book for you.

Happy Easter! Hope you all had a good day! I will try this one this evening! #currentread

This is an intense book. Think Outlander ( rock travel not kilt porn) The Handmaid‘s Tale ( reproductive rights determined by men exclusively) Geology text books ( discussions on how the Earth has changed over the millennia) and a band of feminists who are travellers banding together to make edits to the timeline that work in women‘s favour ❤️

Happy I have to think really hard to remember what day it is Day!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Absolutely fantastic book. A very unique idea executed extremely well. Loved that it was woman and non binary focused. I believe this is the first book I‘ve read with a character whose pronouns are they.
#booked2020 #thinkpink #read2020
14/36

Queer, feminist sci-fi, about an alternate world where people can travel in time using five ancient machines around the world, and a group of women trying to improve the timeline suspect that men are trying to compromise women‘s rights by changing history. Thought-provoking and sometimes chilling, in a good way.

Drums beat in the distance like an amplified pulse.

@ShyBookOwl

I'm SO GLAD it's Friday!

1. Yes - to an extent. I will pick up a book because of it's cover for sure. I usually read the description to decide whether to go for it or put it back.
2. Up-top!I bought a hard copy because I have the audiobook and I never have time to listen to it.
3. Washington Post and from articles linked on Twitter. And if I'm being honest, from Trevor Noah a lot of the time.
4. Hit the snooze 2X!
5. @Lifeisasnap @DeeLew

Trying to finish it this weekend for book club!

For my online book club pick from the library today! #bookclub #librarylove

I'm a sucker for time travel stories and this was wonderfully feminist too

OMG! This book! It has it all. Mosh pits! Sisterhood! World‘s Fairs! Time travel! Anarchists! Geology! And just now, TWIST! Wow.

I‘m not much of audiobook listener, but I‘ve had a lot of long drives lately and I‘ve fallen hard for this book. I hope she sticks the landing!

I felt a gentle pressure at my elbow and turned to see Soph beside me, looping my arm through hers. All around us, the New Women and Spiritualists and Midway dancers and anarchists were linking arms, forming a closed circle around Comstock...We stood silently, dozens of us from dozens of places.
Morehshin spoke up. “You are one. We are many. You cannot make us feel shame.”

This is so, so good. This is so good. I feel weird about it, but it‘s like it was made for me. The suburban desolation that is Irvine! Time travel!! Punks! Defeating Comstock! I spent part of this book convincing myself that the punk band Grape Ape must be real. It sounded so familiar. And there is a music video. https://tinyurl.com/wwbnvc9

Thank you @faelinwolf so much for my #jolabokaflodswap package. I actually opened it this afternoon but wanted to take a picture of it under the Christmas tree with the lights. I can‘t wait to dig I to everything, thank you again!! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁!!

And thank you to @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting the swap ❤️!

Eh. That's all I can really say. I wanted to like it but couldn't finish paperback or audiobook. So I quit.
Worked on this knit scarf/wrap while listening.

An alternate history / present / future about a reality where incredible geologic "Machines" allow time travel. For Tess, a member of the Daughters of Harriet, they're an important part of an edit war to preserve the rights of women and nonbinary people against misogynist followers of Cromstock. Often unsettling, constantly intriguing, and overall incredible. A feminist time travel novel like none other I've ever read!

4.5 stars / ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I've spent the day watching the parade, spending time with family, eating, and reading.

What have you all been doing today?

1. The Future of Another Timeline, Because Internet, and The Sol Majestic

2. All Systems Red

3. Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh, and Degas

#weekendreads

My mom brought home a cake to cheer me up, and two chapters in and this book already has me completely obsessed. Feminist time traveling rebels? Check. Time travel shenanigans? Check. Spetacular writing? Check and check.

A bookstore is definitively 100% the best way to cheer me up and my mom knows this

Snowing and reading on a public holiday.

Lines like this are why this book is just so fun to read.

“The Future of Another Timeline” pits time-traveling Riot Grrrls against time-traveling MRAs and after you read that description you‘re either all in or totally out (I think it‘s obvious I‘m the former)

Been looking forward to this one. Perfect for a snowy day.

This is a tale of relationships, friends and love and loss, with some time travel too. As in real life, a small change can have a much bigger impact than expected. It has violence, love and a lot of emotions too. It‘s sharp, clever, feminist, queer, inclusive, totally amazing and utterly compelling. I loved every minute of it.

Loving this book. Very unique take on time travel and it‘s effects

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

October 2016

My awesome sis in law @Linsy recommended it!

Soooo much more. It's ridiculous!

Mystery and memoir

I've followed @DebinHawaii and @BarbaraTheBibliophage since day one!

I finished this earlier today and BLIMEY WAS IT AMAZING! I am still frothing at the mouth over it. A feminist science fiction novel that features LGBT relationships and representation, timey-wimey time traveling, punk rock bands, women being awesome, interesting historical information, great pacing, and a fantastic cast of characters. What else could you possibly want? This book is sheer perfection! 😍📚💕

I love the cover, and a location on the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border is integral to the functioning of the time traveling Universe, so it's made a positive impression so far! 3 chapters in.

Tonight was the Chicago stop on Annalee‘s tour for The Future of Another Timeline. As expected, after a reading there was a wide-ranging discussion on time travel, feminism, punk rock, belly dancing, murder, Chicago and so much more—and yes, all feature prominently in the book. Entertaining and thought-provoking book + fascinating discussion = fantastic event. Such a fun evening!