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This is a collection of poems, an anthology I suppose, from her previous books. I'm not great with poetry. I love it, that goes without saying, but I find meaning in poetry that others don't see. I don't think that makes me wrong about anything, nor does that make anyone else wrong about what they've discovered. But it leads to conversations and explanations and questions and, sometimes, I only wish to read the poem and enjoy it.

And I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I've just flipped through it for a while. You don't need to read it in order and serendipity is a helluva discovery tool. I saw this book in a Goodwill and decided to give it a go, and I've never regretted that decision.

There's a good story and some good characters that are desperately trying to escape this book. I mean, yeah, it's a sci-fi erotica story in the harem sub-genre. I'm not expecting Anais Nin here. But there were instances where character names would get changed, and then changed back, and sometimes the spicy parts were more like a mild pico de gallo. This is a series that needs a couple more passes through an editor and some rewriting and it could be good.

But it just wasn't. I got invested in the characters, because of course I did, and the only reason I finished it was to find out what happened to them.

If you're familiar with iyashikei anime, or "healing" anime, this book falls very much within the same genre and presentation. I'd heard good things about this one for a while and all of those tales were true. This was genuinely fun to read, and that's one of the highest compliments I can give to any book.

This totally wasn't what I thought it was. I figured it would be something about the history of time travel vis a vis quantum physics or theoretical physics through the Many Worlds Theory or something like that.

No, it's literally a book about the history of time travel in prose, print, and in science itself. It wasn't what I expected, but it was certainly welcome.