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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    May 11, 2018 / No Comments

    I’ll Like You More Tomorrow – Ina (Nimousaku)

    After being placed in a different class from his usual group of friends, all Do Jihwan wants is to spend an uneventful and quiet year in school. That plan goes down in shambles upon meeting one Kang Chanyoung, a popular and up-to-beat guy who has no qualms in saying what’s on his mind.

    One of those loud, forced-himself-on-other-people characters.

    (source: https://mangarock.com)

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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    May 11, 2018 / No Comments

    I’ll Like You More Tomorrow – Ina (Nimousaku)

    After being placed in a different class from his usual group of friends, all Do Jihwan wants is to spend an uneventful and quiet year in school. That plan goes down in shambles upon meeting one Kang Chanyoung, a popular and up-to-beat guy who has no qualms in saying what’s on his mind.

    One of those loud, forced-himself-on-other-people characters.

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    May 11, 2018 / 2 Comments

    Timekeeper – Tara Sim

    I was in an accident. I got out. I’m safe now.

    An alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time—and a destroyed one can stop it completely.

    A prodigy mechanic who can repair not only clockwork but time itself, determined to rescue his father from a Stopped town.

    A series of mysterious bombings that could jeopardize all of England.

    A boy who would give anything to relive his past, and one who would give anything to live at all.

    A romance that will shake the very foundations of time.

    Victoria Schwab describes the novel as “at once familiar and utterly original”. An alternate Victorian world ruled by clock towers does sound original but the automaton and principles used were familiarly steampunk. 

    In this world, time seems to be a very changeable thing which leads me to some questions. What is time in relation to the moon, the sun and other celestial bodies? If time can run fast them slow, does that mean the people in a town age faster and die faster or a town where people die sooner than another town? In a world where time is very erratic, what is their reference point? These things were not explained and I think the world-building needs to flesh out some of the finer details. 

    Danny is a skilled mechanic but he’s also the type who do not think things through and did some things that came biting him in the ass. There were moments when I thought he was unlikable but he pulled through at the end. Danny and Colton are a cute couple although I am only halfway convince that their relationship would work because a. Colton’s a clock spirit, he doesn’t age but he also very fragile, b. Colton’s emotions affect time so when things got hot and steamy between him and Danny, time ran really, really fast so I don’t think Colton should  be exposed to extreme emotions. However, there’s enough fluff to satisfy my fluff quota so I could deal.

    You’re everything. You’re… You’re chaos and order and everything between. Like sunshine kept back by clouds. Like the entire world’s imploded inside you, but all I see are the stars are sewn into your skin. You’re filled with soft, dark music. I hear it all the time. Your music. 

    This book was on my to-be-read list for a long time. Sadly, I was not as into it as I hope I would be. There were some predictable elements but I really liked the clock spirits idea. There is so much potential here that I hope the author might expand the concept and make the logic of the fantasy element a little more rigorous. I hope she adds more details to the world and make things a little more steampunk other than just mere mentions of automaton. I also don’t understand what the protesters were for and why exactly they are protesting the towers. I hope book two might make this plot point clearer.

    Timekeeper is an example of a book with an interesting premise but failed to deliver all the goods. The parts where it delivered were enough to convince me to pick up the second book though so I’m not giving up on Danny and Colton yet.

    Rating:

    3 Stars – not exactly setting my world on fire but I liked it

    Soundtrack: Precious Time
    Artist: The Maccabees
    Album: Colour It In

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  • song,  Uncategorized
    May 11, 2018 / No Comments


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  • Uncategorized
    May 11, 2018 / No Comments

    Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

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    May 11, 2018 / No Comments

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