Marta's Reading Insight
| Marta's Reading InSight | number 15 |  |
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TIME
"A non spatial continuum in which
events occur
in apparently irreversible succession."
How do you experience time?
As a strict task master?
As
flexible & expandable?
As a way to travel back & to the
future?
Can you tell the time without looking at a
clock?
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FICTION | |
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TIME AND AGAIN |
1970 cult classic about Simon, a young Manhattan illustrator selected by a secret government agency to test time travel. He ends up in New York of the 1880's. |
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FROM TIME TO TIME |
The sequel, written 25 years later, takes the hero
to 1912, where Simon attempts to change the course of World
War I. Mind stretching adventures that immerse the reader in
the details of another time. |
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TIME OUT OF
MIND by John Maxim |
Another Manhattanite finds himself in the1880's.
Every snowstorm evokes memories of horse-drawn carriages &
gas lit streets. Suddenly, Jonathan is pursued across time and
fears getting stuck 100 years in the past. |
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THE
TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger |
Touching love story of a couple's struggle with an unusual reality and its impact on their lives. Henry periodically blinks out of existence in the present and ends up somewhere in his past; his adventures are sometimes fun and sometimes dangerous and always leave Claire worrying. |
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NON-FICTION | |
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A SIDEWAYS LOOK AT TIME by Jay Griffiths |
About the feel of time in our daily lives and how it is affected by nature and by different cultures. The "everlasting now" of childhood is contrasted with the "time is money" of business. The suspended time of lovers, the intuitive time of women & "thirteenth hour" of nature confirm the mutable nature of something far more complicated than mere "telling time." |
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IN PRAISE OF SLOWNESS: How a Worldwide Movement is
Challenging the Cult of Speed |
Rehabilitation ideas for speed freaks whose new goal is "balance", in which inner slowness replaces a love affair with speed & efficiency. Depth is added by the slow food movement (using local foods consumed in a leisurely manner), by Tantric sex, by alternative medicine & by activities like knitting, painting & music. Rethink your relationship with time. |
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Marta Campbell, Head of Collection Management |  |
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