Time Travel discussion

After just one nomination, and further poll entries chosen by me, the winner is An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim.

"... follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.

In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him—even if it means risking everything. When she finds out there’s a company that has invented time travel, she agrees to a radical contract: if she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer, the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years.

But when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found. Alone in a transformed and divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must navigate a new life and find a way to locate Frank, to determine if he is alive, and if their love has endured.

... an intimate portrait of endurance and complexity of human relationships and the cost of holding onto the past—and the price of letting it go.

Long time fan of time travel and I have to tell you, that Cleo McCarthy Time Travel and Other Impossible Things renewed my love for this genre. So I vote for it.

Thanks!

Lots of good books, but since we're in a Time Travel group, I would agree with BookStruck on Cleo McCarthy Time Travel and Other Impossible Things Just loved this one. Indie author too I think.

Lynn wrote: "Lots of good books, but since we're in a Time Travel group, I would agree with BookStruck on Cleo McCarthy Time Travel and Other Impossible Things Just loved this one. Indie author..."

I do have to point out that this is not available in any of my libraries, and apparently not in audio, either.

Cheryl wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Lots of good books, but since we're in a Time Travel group, I would agree with BookStruck on Cleo McCarthy Time Travel and Other Impossible Things Just loved this one...." Poeltl is an indie author, so probably not in a library atm.

Only one nomination so far. Looks like I'll have to put together a poll from previous lists and nominations again.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
The poll is up!

Winner is Thea Lim's 2018 book An Ocean of Minutes. About a deadly flu pandemic... prescient? Interesting discussion may ensue if we want to compare what's depicted in the book with what we've been experiencing over the last four years.

I wouldn’t call it prescient. There are way too many books with deadly flu pandemics. Nothing to compare, most of the book takes place 17 years after. There are hardly any descriptions of the actual pandemic. The time travel was just used to move the story ahead 17 years (they could have just been separated and jump ahead or any number of ways to move the story 17 years later). After that it’s just her trying to understand the new world and trying to figure out how to find her fiancé. She doesn’t ask a lot of questions about what happened after she left.

It was just ok. I expect more out of time travel than just a way to move the story from one time to another.

Oh phooey. Well, I'll give it a shot anyway.

This book is a smart allegory for immigrants. The time travelers are exploited, forced into debt doing menial labor, kept from loved ones and lied to repeatedly. They are pitted against each other and can’t trust anyone. It is very sad.

Sorry, I guess I won't be reading it. Samantha, your description reveals it to be totally wrong for me, so, with Nancy's reaction, yeah, no.

Cheryl wrote: "Sorry, I guess I won't be reading it. Samantha, your description reveals it to be totally wrong for me, so, with Nancy's reaction, yeah, no."

AGREED!

BookStruck wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "Sorry, I guess I won't be reading it. Samantha, your description reveals it to be totally wrong for me, so, with Nancy's reaction, yeah, no."

AGREED!"

Yup.

We have a tie in the polls. So for March we'll look at, and hopefully read & discuss, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, and April's book will be Spin Me Right Round.