How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, 256 pages
This book with an inordinately long title is about a time-machine repairman who is stuck in his own time loop. The book is borderline stream-of-consciousness, peppered with entries from a time-machine/time-travel handbook. The repairman, whose name is the same as the author's, spends a lot of the time in his loop mulling over his past, his relationships with his parents and doing a lot of self-reflection. I suppose there's not a lot else to do in a shower-stall-sized machine, but it didn't exactly make for an engaging story. I wasn't too impressed with this book — didn't love it, didn't hate it — although I kind of feel like my own stubbornness is all that made me finish it. Meh.
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