librarypatronus 's review for:

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

3.0

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3.5 stars. I enjoyed this, but I spent the first half a little confused (my own issue, not because of the writing) so I’d really like to reread and see how it affects my experience to understand who is who and how they relate to begin with. I thought there were some really interesting points on how time travel changes your perception of the normal parts of life: how you view death, relationships, aging, and yourself at different points in your time line.

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for example, when Grace admits she doesn’t know her age, but instead tracks her heartbeats so that when she dies her body can be returned to approximately when she would’ve lived to if she was a typical person not time traveling, or when Ginger resigns herself to staying married because her time traveling daughter thinks her parents stayed married.

I found a lot of that stuff particularly fascinating and found the tying of all the mystery threads together to be really well done.