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I'm starting a book I've been meaning to read for a long time. It's from the 90's!

The results of today's #bookcrawl. Such a great day. The sun was out for a change. I haven't been out for real book browsing in almost 2 years! Finish off with lunch at Five Guys and the day is pretty much perfect.

Next stop on the #bookcrawl The Book Deal! 📚📚📚💜

Book 50🎧 3.5⭐️

This book dives into the possibility of other worlds with different measure and ideas of “time”🕰

Different speeds, directions, with gaps, with no future?

Very cool but I wish there was a bit more expansion!

I also love Switzerland so it was nice hearing about places I visited since Einstein lived in Bern!🐻 Saw it with my own 👀 😂

Quick listen 2.5hrs

🎧 I also have enjoyed Moonwalking with Einstein, Einstein‘s Dice & Schrodingers Cat and What Einstein told his Cook.

What this is … Short thought provoking chapters. Just the way I like them! It might just be 144 pages but try one fable on at a time. Super nerdy. Really interesting.

Time.

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I had never heard of Lightman until I came across his wonderful essays in Harper‘s Magazine. I love scientists who have a tremendous gift for writing 🤓

#7days7books Day one

Books that changed me or made a deep impression.

Thank you for the tag @zezeki ! Would you like to participate @Lel2403 @Schlinkles ?

#frozen #MOvember
@Cinfhen

So far it‘s an amazing book. Halfway through it and can‘t put it down !

#QuotsyOct19 - Curious: Curiosity - how we learn, how we discover, how we create...how we evolve! I believe that every reader has a curious nature. We want to know...the outcome of a story, a history, a tall tale, a detailed fiction, a truth...whatever it is, we are curious and we want to know!

An old favorite that‘s due for a reread. #letstravelaugust #switzerland @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Overall, I enjoyed the range of thought experiments / stories. However, a couple of them struck me as philosophically sloppy.

“Consider a world in which #cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past, effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined.”

Einstein‘s Dreams is one of my favorite books - so much fuel for ideas and imagination.

#QuotsyMar19 @TK-421

[ image from The X-Files S7 E6, The Goldberg Variation ]

#BookNBrunch! Accompaniment this cold and sunny early afternoon was: raisin French toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, and Earl Grey tea. MMMMmmmm 😋! Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻

#BookNDinner! Finally getting to a meal after dealing with contractor issues at the house again 🙈. Accompaniment this gray, subzero evening: ziti in meat sauce, and Vanilla Coke ( @Ambrosnazzy 😎🙌🏻). MMMMMmmmm 😋! This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻

#HotCocoa, anyone?! Nothing like some on a frigid day after shoveling while reading. 😁

#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this cold and still night: cheesesteak with mozzarella and mushrooms; French fries; a pickle; and Stella Artois. MMMMMmmm 😋! Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻

#BookNAppetizer! Accompaniment this cold and still night: garlic ranch wings, ranch, and Stella Artois. MMMmmm 😋! Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻

#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this cold and calm night: zuppa de pesce—shrimp, scallops, clams, mussels, calamari, in plum tomato broth, over linguini! (And sparkling mineral water. Lol) MMMMmmm 😋! Happy reads and happy eats! 😎👌🏻

Book: Einstein‘s Dreams (tagged).
Author: Edgar Allen Poe or Edward Gorey.
Movie: Edward Scissorhands.
Food: Elderflower liqueur. Wait, booze isn‘t food? Okay. Eggs Benedict or eclairs.
@JoScho #manicmonday

For both artists and scientists alike, this marvellous philosophical text is worth the read! This work of fiction focuses on the dreams behind Einstein‘s theory of relativity, and throws the reader into different worlds, each experiencing time differently. Those who struggle with science shouldn‘t be put off however, as there is no jargon to contend with, only the philosophy behind the beautiful (and possibly terrifying) world we live in xD

#7favesin7days 2/7

One of my favorites.

This book is so beautiful. Reading it was a joy.

A beautiful collection of fables/prose poems about theories of time. In each piece time has shaped the characters' lives & settings in unique ways. Lightman's book calls to mind Calvino's "Invisible Cities," while remaining unique. Evocative, moody & eccentric. A book to read & reread.

I️ read this at the recommendation of Erin Morgenstern (author of The Night Circus), who said that this book inspired her. I️ thought that it was utterly lovely, atmospheric, and it will definitely stick with me for a long time. Some of the vignettes were creepy, some were simply fun, and they were all just a bit uncanny. Definitely a pick!

I very interesting little book, filled with Einstein‘s dreams about the nature of Time and how time might unwind in different ways, described through a series of dreams showing how people would live in this world or that under different ways of thinking about and interpreting time, as his theory develops and his dreams change.

I didn't really get this, but it fits today's prompt so 🤷‍♀️ #dreams

#NoteworthyNovember

This is just one of many powerful passages in this book. Really makes the reader think about the time they are given

Began this one yesterday and already more than halfway through it. Very thoughtful and interesting

Very unique little book, imagining Einstein's dreams about different concepts of time.

#30daysofreadathon Day 6: Time
Einstein's Dreams is a fantastic work of fiction detailing dreams Einstein has while developing his theory of relativity. In these dreams he reimagines the concept of time, seeing worlds where time passes differently for those at different altitudes, or where time is tangible and experienced like colors or flavors, and so many other unique envisionings of time. A perfect #readathon choice!

Dewey's Readathon countdown, Day 6: The prompt is "time." This is another of my very favorite books, about many possible concepts regarding time. #readathon #30DaysofReadathon ???

Einstein had some of the #wildestdreams I have ever read about. Or, according to Alan Lightman he did. This book is weird and a bit dreamlike ✨

#AugustGrrrl

Yes I do, would you believe I picked it up at the library book sale earlier this year!

This slim book is a series of dreams about different versions of time that Einstein has as he is working out his theory of relativity. #thoughtprovoking. I also just realized that I loaned my signed copy to a friend who has since moved across country. Sigh. Anyway, one of my favorite books. #aprilbookshowers

I don't reread things very often- you've seen my TBR! There's just never enough time! But these 3 I have reread over and over throughout the years. Sometimes you need comfort food for the brain. #mostreread #feistyfeb

This book is amazing. Each chapter represents a dream Einstein had about time, and explores that concept from a different angle as people would likely experience it. The writing is wonderful. I don't write much in books, but I have marked this one on almost every page. #24in48

Looking a little skeptical because I don't think I can submit this in time, but this is me and now you know why I don't do selfies very often 😕. #24in48

I love this book ❤️. Thanks @CherylDeFranceschi for the recommendation 😍

ADD is kicking in, so I'm changing up my read-a-thon book a little bit. (Will get back to Bernie later.). Dinah approves, because this book coordinates with her outfit 😻 #24in48

After all the likes and reviews, it's time that I spend a Sunday enjoying this book :)

This is the book I recommend the very most. And give away the most. If you haven't read it, do it now! #FunFridayPhoto

I'm moved to revisit this mind-expanding "novel" today because there's an admiring article about it in the current Slightly Foxed Quarterly. I know quite a few of my Litsy colleagues are fellow fans.

This book was like reading a dream. Both the language (which was awesome) and the structure of the short stories felt like when you are telling a friend about a dream you had last night. Time plays a central role in all of the stories, but the shape of time is different in everyone. Or almost. As I progressed I found some of the stories a bit repetitive, but maybe that's just because I read it all in one go. Would still recommend!

"Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone". Just simple and beautiful.

Spending a sunny afternoon with this little thing ☀️

I had the opportunity to read, and ponder time, while waiting for hours in the urgent care today (nothing major, thankfully). What a terrific book, with its whimsical imaginings and meditations on the nature of time - how it slows or races by, depending on circumstance, and how people respond to, and shape their lives by it. A perfect book, and the rare one I can see myself returning to. (Photo: Metronome sculpture in Union Square.)