Archive for Time Travel

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

I briefly wrote about this book in a post I did about time inspired books on The Hub. It won the 2010 Newbery Medal and is indeed, wonderfully written.  I admire a book with an interesting construct and this is put together wonderfully.  Miranda and Sal were friends, but then things start to fall apart.  And when Miranda receives little notes that indicate someone knows her and her friends and things that have not happened yet, she wonders what it in the world is going on.

You won’t know until the end of the book how it all fits together, and watching those pieces fall into place is really cool.  it’s also a bit of a tender, moving story.

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All Clear by Connie Willis

Picking up immediately after Blackout (and with no background, so don’t bother reading if you didn’t read the first-this is clearly one long story just split into two books)the time travelers spend most of this book trying to find a way back to 2060 Oxford, all the while trying to survive everyday life of World War II in Englang. This was amazing historical fiction-so detailed and I don’t doubt the authenticity of it at all. It really was frightening and inspiring to see how people got through-some of the best historical fiction I’ve ever read! The ending did get a bit convoluted as you try to wrap your head around the time travel aspect, and I think she threw in a something on literally the last half a page that I am not at all certain I understand.

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The Clearing by Heather Davis

I picked up this prepub at Midwinter, as it was described as “The Time Traveler’s Wife” for teens. I’m not so sure about that description, catchy though it may by, though this is a sweet, romantic, time travel story.

After a troubled time with a dreadful boyfriend Amy has moved to the rural Northwest to live with her great aunt.  She is nervous about this new start and anxious about making friends and having a bad reputation precede her.  When she meets Henry after walking through a dense mist into the clearing behind her aunt’s trailer she is attracted to his gentle manners and thoughtful ways.  He seems almost not of her time and, in fact, he isn’t.  Henry and his mother and grandfather have been stuck in the same summer during WWII ever since Henry offered up a particular prayer.  This is a very charming twist to traditional time travel because it’s not so much that Amy time travels, more that she happens upon Henry, who is stuck in time (like Brigadoon?)  One of the other things I thought interesting was that what appeals to Amy is not only the romanticized pace of the time period, but also the manners and gentility of boys.

A quick read with a particularly wonderful ending.

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