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message 1: by Cynda (last edited Oct 01, 2023 04:54AM) (new)

Cynda | 1654 comments Mod
This Challenge has Two Levels.
Level One: Read one book for each time period: Past, Present, and Future. You decide when Present is, such as present year, present decade, present century. Then having decided that, you can choose what is Past or Future in comparison to the Present.
Level Two:Read one book with each time description: In Time and Outside of Time. Some examples? Anything set In Time such as music or poetry or sequence or anything else that works for you. Outside of Time such as timelessness of beauty or art or philosophy or where time is nonlinear or anything else that works for you. (I'm thinking timelessness of Shakespeare.)
Enjoy!


message 2: by Lamilla (new)

Lamilla | 818 comments I'm in! For me present would be XXI century.
Currently I'm finishing Воспоминания о России by Княгиня Ольга Палей , set in 1916-1919


message 3: by Cynda (last edited Oct 31, 2023 10:16PM) (new)

Cynda | 1654 comments Mod
Hi Lamilla. Me too.
*Level One*
Past: The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman (17th and 18th centuries)
Finished Oct 08 The Girl Who Drew Butterflies How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman
Present "Apt Student" novella from collection
Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King (20th century--A book written and set in my lifetime.)
Finished Oct 22 Different Seasons Four Novellas by Stephen King
FutureParable of the Talents by
Finished Oct 31 Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by Octavia E. Butler by Octavia E. Butler

*Level Two*
In TimeThe Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions by Richard Platt
Finished Oct 13 The Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions by Richard Platt
Outside of TimeMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Finished Oct 13 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs

These are my selections. I will be discussing in my personal thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 4: by Jamie (new)

Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount) (ravenmount) | 950 comments Mod
Fun challenge. I'll have to work out what to read this evening.


message 5: by Elizabeth (new)

Elizabeth | 316 comments So excited for pre-readathon! I'm tracking this challenge in my personal thread.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 6: by Doni (new)

Doni | 101 comments This challenge is timely for me!

Level Two: In time, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

Out of time, Time And Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship To Time

Level One:
I *think* I might read Hatchet for past
The Chalice of the Gods for present,
and I don't know yet what I'll read for the future!


message 7: by Laura (last edited Oct 05, 2023 04:52PM) (new)

Laura H | 169 comments Level one-- past The Killer Angels
present Never Lie
future La resistencia

Level two-in time By the River
Out of time Tales from Shakespeare


message 9: by Cynda (new)

Cynda | 1654 comments Mod
Some good plans here!
Happy to see how everyone has interpreted the challenge.


message 10: by Cathy (last edited Nov 01, 2023 06:00AM) (new)

Cathy  (cathepsut) | 567 comments Pre-Readathon Challenge: Time
This what I have read and what applies, since the challenge has been posted:

Level 1
Past:
- stretching it a little, but this is set in the past of the actual trilogy: The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince
- started, but abandoned, as it didn‘t work for me as audio: Hild (7th cent. Britain)
Present: Starter Villain
Future: any of the 5 Murderbot novellas I read this month.

Level 2
In Time: Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor
Out of Time:


message 11: by Vanessa (new)

Vanessa Dargain | 503 comments Doni wrote: "I'm going to read The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World for the future."

The title sounds very interesting .


message 12: by Cynda (new)

Cynda | 1654 comments Mod
Reading Octavia Butler requires thoughtfulness, so I start the novel and audiobook combo tonight. Looking forward as I have this year read the preceding novel Parable of the Sower.


message 13: by Doni (new)

Doni | 101 comments Vanessa wrote: "Doni wrote: "I'm going to read The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World for the future."

The title sounds very interesting ."


I enjoyed it!


message 14: by Lamilla (new)

Lamilla | 818 comments I'll count Erebos as the one for the Present. With it I'm done with the challenge, hurray


message 15: by Cynda (new)

Cynda | 1654 comments Mod
And I am done too.
My last read: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler.


I needed that little extra pushnto finish this book. Was worthwhile and time consuming, both. 3 or 4 stars, not sure which.


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