Title: Here and Now and Then Author: Mike Chen Publisher: MIRA Publication date: January 29, 2019 Genre: Fiction Summary: Kin Stewart is a time traveling secret agent from 2142, except he becomes severely injured during a mission and gets stuck in the 1990s. Without proper medical intervention and no sign of help coming from the future, Kin slowly begins to forget his life in 2142 and starts a family. Eighteen years later, where only two weeks have passed in the future, Kin’s retriever agent comes for him, forcing him to return home and inevitably tearing him between his two families. When his attempts to keep both families are discovered, and his daughter from the…
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Time Burrito by Aaron Frale
Title: Time Burrito Author: Aaron Frale Publisher: self-published Publication date: March 20, 2017 Genre: Science Fiction Summary: All Pete wants is to make the perfect burrito. He runs a burrito food truck near a university in Albuquerque, but they aren’t very good. Yet. One night, he is crossing a parking lot near the physics building when a badly injured man runs out. Once he loses consciousness, Pete goes to investigate and finds an unconscious woman and a portal. They and much of the lab get sucked in and spat back out in Neanderthal times, where the woman, Clara, is carried off by a Neanderthal man. What starts as an attempt…
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52 Books, January Update
So, here I am, a few weeks into the year and a few weeks into my goal of reading 52 books. My plan as been going mostly well so far. I read when the kids nap. I read when I’m up in the middle of the night with my infant. But I also pick child-friendly books so I can also read them to my toddler at bedtime. Finding those pockets of time to read have really helped. As mentioned before, I selected Aaron Frale’s Time Burrito as my first book of the year. This review is forthcoming next month. It wasn’t a long book, so I finished in less than a…
