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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
I loved this book! It is so imaginative and uses time in a wonderful way. The characters are well drawn. Fun and engaging.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
- Life is about choices, and no matter which ones you make, I love you. Don’t ever apologize for going one way or another, just know you can always change. You’re living proof of that, aren’t you? I’ve learned from my mistakes, too. Your papa and I, we both did. We should have let you do what made you happy, not what we thought was best.
- Raisa didn’t read books; it was like she absorbed them into her bloodstream.
- The impossible is always possible.
- I hate math. Americans hate math. Only Soviets think numbers are worth anything.
- She always tried to do the problems, but she never excelled the way her parents expected. When she looked at a triangle, she didn't see a hypotenuse or the area that fell inside those three lines. She saw the silhouette, the jagged cut in white space on the page. She saw the light illuminated and hid, magnified and laid the truth bare.
- Unlike schoolwork, drawing came easily. When she drew the pain she felt dulled with every line she added to the page.
- Molly tried to tell herself it would be all right, that trying to fit in was exhausting anyway. It was easier to live in her artwork.
- Enough with the art. Put your time where it matters. "Art matters" it will never put food on the table, Papa said.
- I've wasted years on a stupid dream. We are in America Papa. They don't ask for papers. And the war, it's over. "Are you sure? One day they will start asking for papers".
- He was one of the few men who ever requested to work with her, who wasn't intimidated by a woman knowing more than he did.
- "Outthink them", Yulia liked to say. "You'll never be stronger, but you will always be smarter".
- Most times I see an attractive Nazi, I take in his looks, and then I imagine how I would torture him before I'd kill him.
- We're his props, you see. He will stand on our backs to reach greatness.
- Radioactive elements want to be stable. It's why they shed their outer layers. Don't we all want that, stability?
- She would change the course. She would choose her family.
- She wasn't going to college. She didn't need to deal with another place where her parents expected her to be brilliant, where she was surrounded by people who mistook her disinterest for lack os smarts.
- She saw love in her parents, in the quiet between them where they spoke without words, in the way they anticipated each other, did for each other.
- If you are an artist, all those critics can tell you you're a genius and list the reasons why, but then they can use the same reasons to call you a fool. Idiocy or brilliance determined by a whim. I don't want that for you.
- We know better than most that you can always restart your life.
-During the birth Molly didn't hold back. She screamed with all her might and it had nothing to do with the child tearing her apart. It was her old self pulling her to pieces, and as she pushed it awat, she made room for the baby.
- When she woke up, Mama handed her the baby. Molly waited to be struck with love, only she wasn't and it made her panic. "I don't love her", Molly said, her voice a scratch. "It takes time," Mama interrupted. "It takes time to love. Any mother who can't admit that is lying."
- The little girl stood there crying silent tears. She didn't shake or whimper like other kids, and Molly was torn between feeling proud and upset her daughter was forced to be that strong. "It's ok to be sad" She said to Raisa.
- Then it was just Molly and that bottle of pills, and wjole the container was small, it took over the entire apartment.
- She did Baba's hair slowly because she'd learned it was a way to sit with her grandmother and touch her, to be with her without saying a word.
- Finding the right answer to a test means I studied. It doesn't mean I am smart. To be smart you have to have ideas of your own.
- Your elbow looks close, but you can't bite it.
- Somehow she had spent her whole life that way, just a little late or a little early, working a little too hard or not quite hard enough.In a heartbeat Molly was enclosed in one of her mother's tight, full-body hugs, the kind she had hated as a teenager. It used to feel overwhelming, but now it was what Molly wanted and she fell into it, leaned hard.
- I've always been proud of you, You...you just never heard me say it, I'm sorry I didn't make my voice louder. Being a mother, you never know what's right until it's too late.
- My grandparents showed me there is more to life than surviving. I don't know much about what they lived through, but enough to know they're qualified to say that.
- When I draw, I'm lost in the world. In a good way,. Everything else seems easier to deal with.
- Already she could tell Vito had the American habit of talking to fill silence.
- Not every woman is a natural mother.
- One mistake is never the problem. The real problem is not looking at the arc of bad decisions.
- "I'd know you anywhere, my heart"
- Raisa didn’t read books; it was like she absorbed them into her bloodstream.
- The impossible is always possible.
- I hate math. Americans hate math. Only Soviets think numbers are worth anything.
- She always tried to do the problems, but she never excelled the way her parents expected. When she looked at a triangle, she didn't see a hypotenuse or the area that fell inside those three lines. She saw the silhouette, the jagged cut in white space on the page. She saw the light illuminated and hid, magnified and laid the truth bare.
- Unlike schoolwork, drawing came easily. When she drew the pain she felt dulled with every line she added to the page.
- Molly tried to tell herself it would be all right, that trying to fit in was exhausting anyway. It was easier to live in her artwork.
- Enough with the art. Put your time where it matters. "Art matters" it will never put food on the table, Papa said.
- I've wasted years on a stupid dream. We are in America Papa. They don't ask for papers. And the war, it's over. "Are you sure? One day they will start asking for papers".
- He was one of the few men who ever requested to work with her, who wasn't intimidated by a woman knowing more than he did.
- "Outthink them", Yulia liked to say. "You'll never be stronger, but you will always be smarter".
- Most times I see an attractive Nazi, I take in his looks, and then I imagine how I would torture him before I'd kill him.
- We're his props, you see. He will stand on our backs to reach greatness.
- Radioactive elements want to be stable. It's why they shed their outer layers. Don't we all want that, stability?
- She would change the course. She would choose her family.
- She wasn't going to college. She didn't need to deal with another place where her parents expected her to be brilliant, where she was surrounded by people who mistook her disinterest for lack os smarts.
- She saw love in her parents, in the quiet between them where they spoke without words, in the way they anticipated each other, did for each other.
- If you are an artist, all those critics can tell you you're a genius and list the reasons why, but then they can use the same reasons to call you a fool. Idiocy or brilliance determined by a whim. I don't want that for you.
- We know better than most that you can always restart your life.
-During the birth Molly didn't hold back. She screamed with all her might and it had nothing to do with the child tearing her apart. It was her old self pulling her to pieces, and as she pushed it awat, she made room for the baby.
- When she woke up, Mama handed her the baby. Molly waited to be struck with love, only she wasn't and it made her panic. "I don't love her", Molly said, her voice a scratch. "It takes time," Mama interrupted. "It takes time to love. Any mother who can't admit that is lying."
- The little girl stood there crying silent tears. She didn't shake or whimper like other kids, and Molly was torn between feeling proud and upset her daughter was forced to be that strong. "It's ok to be sad" She said to Raisa.
- Then it was just Molly and that bottle of pills, and wjole the container was small, it took over the entire apartment.
- She did Baba's hair slowly because she'd learned it was a way to sit with her grandmother and touch her, to be with her without saying a word.
- Finding the right answer to a test means I studied. It doesn't mean I am smart. To be smart you have to have ideas of your own.
- Your elbow looks close, but you can't bite it.
- Somehow she had spent her whole life that way, just a little late or a little early, working a little too hard or not quite hard enough.In a heartbeat Molly was enclosed in one of her mother's tight, full-body hugs, the kind she had hated as a teenager. It used to feel overwhelming, but now it was what Molly wanted and she fell into it, leaned hard.
- I've always been proud of you, You...you just never heard me say it, I'm sorry I didn't make my voice louder. Being a mother, you never know what's right until it's too late.
- My grandparents showed me there is more to life than surviving. I don't know much about what they lived through, but enough to know they're qualified to say that.
- When I draw, I'm lost in the world. In a good way,. Everything else seems easier to deal with.
- Already she could tell Vito had the American habit of talking to fill silence.
- Not every woman is a natural mother.
- One mistake is never the problem. The real problem is not looking at the arc of bad decisions.
- "I'd know you anywhere, my heart"
I was hesitant to read this, but it is a captivating blend of history, fantasy and nerdy science. Probably one of my favorite recent reads.
i liked this book so much more than i thought i would. picked it up like 2 years ago and finally decided to read.
This is a fantastic sci-fi time travel novel centering on three women, their connection to each other and to Chernobyl. Anna, Molly and Raisa- three generations of flawed women are trying to figure out how to stop the Chernobyl disaster and save their family at the same time.
I loved the characters in this book and I really felt for Anna as I felt like she was misunderstood by everyone around her. Molly was a bit harder to like as I felt like she played the victim all the time and was completely unwilling to see anyone else's perspective. Raisa was a great character and it was so wonderful to see her come into her own towards the end of the book.
I felt this book was a bit too long. I'm definitely glad I hung in there because the ending was well worth it. I wish I could actually see some of the Atomic Anna comic books as they sound amazing!
I loved the characters in this book and I really felt for Anna as I felt like she was misunderstood by everyone around her. Molly was a bit harder to like as I felt like she played the victim all the time and was completely unwilling to see anyone else's perspective. Raisa was a great character and it was so wonderful to see her come into her own towards the end of the book.
I felt this book was a bit too long. I'm definitely glad I hung in there because the ending was well worth it. I wish I could actually see some of the Atomic Anna comic books as they sound amazing!
Such a treat. At times very heart-wrenching and at others very heart-warming, this book explores intergenerational relationships and trauma through a sci-fi lens.
A sci-fi story about a Russian scientist who caused the meltdown at Chenobyl who then invents a time machine to fix the disaster at Chenobyl?? Sign me up! The premise of this book was so compelling for me and although it was well written I wasn't as enthralled as I thought I would be.
The story centers around three generations of women and the choices they make or don't make. Of course time travel affects a lot of what happens to these characters, in good ways and very bad ways.
I can't exactly put my finger on why this book didn't wow me. 😐 I think it was a bit too slow moving for me and there was too much character study and family dynamics that I was just waiting for more time travel and more of Chenobyl, both fascinating topics. I think if the author leaned into the latter a little more it could of made the book more exciting.
As is the book is pretty darn good. It really has a little bit of every genre you can think of. Would recommend to most avid readers of literary fiction and sci-fi.
The story centers around three generations of women and the choices they make or don't make. Of course time travel affects a lot of what happens to these characters, in good ways and very bad ways.
I can't exactly put my finger on why this book didn't wow me. 😐 I think it was a bit too slow moving for me and there was too much character study and family dynamics that I was just waiting for more time travel and more of Chenobyl, both fascinating topics. I think if the author leaned into the latter a little more it could of made the book more exciting.
As is the book is pretty darn good. It really has a little bit of every genre you can think of. Would recommend to most avid readers of literary fiction and sci-fi.