Hello! I'm 32 and lately I've been thinking about the passage of time a lot, history, all the countless people that have lived full lives, fallen in love, grown old, passed away and withered into the remnants of history, all the memories that no longer exist, all the people that have come before us.
I don't think it's a midlife crisis I'm going through, just something I'm slightly obsessing over; if I walk down a street I'll look at the brickwork and wonder about the person who laid it, if I walk through the countryside I wonder about the people who also looked out at the same view. Okay, maybe a little midlife crisis-ish, but a bit existential.
Anyway, not sure exactly what I'm looking for, but a book involving the passage of time maybe? I read Matt Haig – How To Stop Time last year and it was great, and time travel stories have always fascinated me.
Sorry for such a vague request!
by BeachJenkins
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*One Hundred Years of Solitude* by Marquez is the first thing that came to mind… but *The Barn* by Wright Thompson is prob my favorite book I read this past year & I think it’s relevant for what you’re looking for – it analyzes the spatial history of the Mississippi Delta region through the filter of a crime that you’ll no doubt be at least vaguely familiar with…
On the Calculations of Volume.
Swedish Literary Groundhog day.
It will be a septology (seven book series). I don’t know how available it is in print but is available as an ebook.