Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m so intimidated by Dexter Palmer I can‘t even review his book. How about this: It‘s really, really good. 😁
#ToB #TournamentofFavorites

I *almost* bailed on this as the first half was so incredibly slow— But the second half has all the action 🙂While it‘s not as sexy as a Magic Treehouse or a Tardis, the “CVD” feels real as do the characters and the moments of their lives that we witness.

It throws in some time travel & physics theory (TBH, I‘m not sold on the “version control” concept) but the heart of the story will get you more than anything else.

📷: Double slit experiment

All this time and I just now realized the cover is a woman‘s face! 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is a time travel novel featuring a married couple in the future, the wife having been hollowed out by a tragedy in her life. The husband is a physicist working on what is essentially a time machine.

Slow start so far (80 pages in) but eager to see where this is going!

#FallFinds

One of my favorite #futuristic novels of recent years. 🚀

Re-reading this one and its just as painful as the first time. Palmer takes the time travel trope and twists it into a fascinating little mechanism to reflect the ways in which we mean so little and so much in each others lives, especially when technology replaces so much of our human interaction. Will make you want to run outside and do something human and base in the best way possible.

Well this looks and sounds interesting.

#kindledeal #ebookdeal

Today‘s #manicmonday is brought to you by the letter V and @JoScho

📚 Version Control by Dexter Palmer
✏️ Kurt Vonnegut
🎥 V for Vendetta
📺 V I love the miniseries and both versions of the show.
🥕 I love veggies. I won‘t mention the many versions of Vanilla anything I enjoy.

Wow. This wasn‘t what I expected but it strung me along juuuuust enough to finish it.

It was more ‘literature‘ type reading than sci-fi where it dives deep into the relationships and cultural/societal topography of the near future.

It was interesting and quite well done but just slow and I was looking toward something a little faster and more action.

#humpdaypost
1. Coconut Cream Pie🥥
2. Time machine changes reality.
3. 20ish 😬
4. Scooby Doo.
5. Cancer🦀
@MinDea

This messed with my head so much, but it was really good. #virtualinsanity #aprella

#bccunboxing I read and loved Version Control last year, nice to have a copy for my personal library now! I get the strange worlds case, there's several genres and it's a great priced no-frills surprise book subscription :).

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I'm only 8 percent in but already fascinated.

Now at 35 percent. Still riveted!

I loved it!!! So well-done, thought-provoking and moving!

I can't seem to just sit and read any of the books I'm in the middle of, so I'm choosing to start a fresh one and see whether it sticks. This one comes highly recommended by @8little_paws and @GregZimmerman.

Oh dear this book is more relevant than intended

💙🎆

Well, here it is. My top fiction read of 2017. Doesn't matter there's still 5.5 months to go. This book connected with me in a major way. Does anyone else feel like that feeling you get when you read a book that rocks your world is the same feeling as when you meet someone and feel like you could fall in love with them? This book filled the void that The Nix left in me around this time last year. An all time favorite.

This book just takes my breath away every five, ten pages or so. A delightful find.

I'm so grateful I picked up this book. It speaks to me at this point in my life so strongly as I look at how I got to where I am and have to learn to accept things as they are. "You may learn to live with what happened to you, but you never get over it."

Oh em gee, not even to page 20 yet, I'm bananas for this book.

I didn't know what to expect from this book and I got exactly what I expected. This was intriguing, some science-y stuff (on the level of what is in Dark Matter). Enjoyable, with some thought-provoking content sprinkled throughout.

A peaceful evening😊

Starting this tonight, I have heard good things about it 😊

A *slow* burn of a book but a compelling story. About time travel, yes, but frank discussions of race and gender, as well. Intriguing.

So far this one has some deliciously unsettling parallels to today's society. It's a lonnngggg book, but I'm liking it so far.

#readathon #hour1 Finished up this book from #tob17. Not often I can post a picture of the last page without spoilers! #kindle

I really liked this one! It dragged slightly in the middle but picked up again by the end.

No YOU got overexcited at the library and checked out more books than could fit in your tote bag. 📚😝📚

#library #newbooks #readathonprep #bookhaul

Feeling very guilty because this book is late back to the library! But I really liked it. It was much more than a time travel story. The discussions about social media, self-driving case, dating websites, and Big Data were especially interesting. I recommend this for people that weren't quite satisfied with Dark Matter. More ideas but less action.

I picked this book up from the library earlier today and just opened it to discover that this page has been ripped horribly! I gasped loudly enough that my dogs turned to look at me. 😂

Nailing the experience of being a woman online dating. 😑

#ToB17 #ToB2017 #TournamentofBooks

"You don't want your story to be one where you hit a plateau and tread water for the rest of your life, and you tell yourself you're happy because you're getting by." This book is much more insightful that I expected it to be. I'm really enjoying it.

This book was a little long for me. It was a cool idea, about how time travel works, and the implications. But I felt there was a lot of build up that did not add anything. And I felt that it sometimes got a little long winded.

"Look at history," the President said, "and you'll see that when empires start to fall, the science and the art are always what go first." Well, this was certainly NOT spoken by 45...

This is a biggie...please let me get through it before my six-mile snowshoe adventure next Sunday. I don't want to have to carry it in my pack!

Grabbed this at Barnes & Noble tonight! I've been meaning to read this for a while.

While I was there I discovered my B&N had rearranged everything & done away with separating all new books sections. How am I supposed to browse new releases if they're shelved entirely with backlist? I don't always have a list when I go to browse & prioritize buying new books over older titles. Giant pet peeve & going to a new B&N now. 😡

Literary sci-fi done well. Set in a plausible near-future, with rogue physicists and potential time travel and a world that seems not quite right.

Despite having yet to read either of these - I was really excited by the outcome. I kind of like it when speculative fiction wins out over a more traditionally literary offering. Going to need to move this book up my list.

#tob2017 #tournamentofbooks #tob

Just finished this in time for this morning's play off, #tournamentofbooks2017. I really liked this one. So much here to think about.

(Saying 100 pages in that I'm not sure I'll finish this one.)

An amazing story about a possible near future. Couldn't put it down.

As a physicist... Ouch

The only ToB book I got to this year, but it was a really interesting one. A melding of physics, time travel, mundane like stuff, relationships, ennui, parenting, alcoholism, some race issues, this novel covers a lot. Not always successfully and it's a bit too long and meandering. But the characters are complex and made me want to follow their stories. Plus a really nice spin on the usual time travel story.

Trying to distract myself the evening before a few stressful days (and to get to 6/16 before the ToB starts on Wednesday)

Skippy and Toby stole my warm seat while refilling my coffee so I have been relegated to another couch. Super sore today and resting more. I might finally finish this book if I can get off of Litsy sometime soon! 😆

What I have left to read for #Tournamentofbooks2017

#funfridayphoto

I haven't been around Litsy lately due to major changes in my house and projects (getting room ready for my mother-in-law to move in 😶). Still working on Same book, which was really slow at first and then just clicked frame around page 100. Now I'm really liking it and flying through it. Plenty of coffee this morning; Mr. Z has his GoT cup out. Isn't it cool? 😍