The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Beate Sirota Gordon, John W. Dower and Nicole A. Gordon
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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese...
The Glass Ocean
Karen White, Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig
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From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical...
Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
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In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American...
Reiko LJ (126 KP) rated The Psychology of Time Travel in Books
Aug 13, 2018
Usually when fiction tackles time travel concepts you get glaring paradoxes, intentional blurring of details or overdone tropes but this book actually pulled it off well. Rather than focusing on the usual quandaries faced by time travelling instead we had a plethora of content I'd never even considered before!
From the humble beginnings of the four 'pioneers' in the '60s (which most books would have kept focus on) we jump forwards to the modern era and have what happened between was filled in through very natural exposition and character discovery. The result is a rich and vast world I wanted to know more and more about. What a fantastic concept to show modern day Britain with a history knocked off course by the creation of the conclave and decades of shared knowledge.
I was repeatedly impressed by the level of detail that Mascarenhas took things to (the time travel terminology/slang definitely being one of them!) and the areas she covered.
Over the course of reading this book I found myself bringing up the book in conversation at work and home. I couldn't help but talk about it. It was also at this point, in describing the book, that I suddenly realised there were no male characters of note in the book at all. This absolutely took nothing away from the story. The women in this story were fully formed and real enough to be flawed. Such a refreshing experience in sci-fi! I was pleasantly surprised by the romantic sub-plot between two women as well. This was such a natural progression of the story, with no fan-fare or overdue focus - it was just right and wonderfully depicted.
The themes covered by the book are equal parts beautiful and painful - just like life itself. What an incredible debut novel from a voice I am keen to hear more from.
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Thank you to NetGalley and Head of Zeus for an ARC of this book in in exchange for an honest review
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ClareR (5779 KP) rated Killing Beauties in Books
Feb 5, 2020
It’s a really fun book - fast-paced and with a feeling of danger. I loved it!
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