pretty interesting book about our understanding of time from a physics perspective. my favorite part was the first few chapters, where he described how general relativity has influenced our notion of time and how many of the basic intuitions we have (direction, uniform speed, global "now") are false. some of the other chapters were harder to wrap my head around, as he tried to discuss advanced physics theories without actually going into precise details. writing style was very poetic and fun to read.
(copied from Roam)
We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that flows uniformly, independently from everything else, from the past to the future, measured by clocks and watches. In the course of time, the events of the universe succeed each other in an orderly way: pasts, presents, futures. The past is fixed, the future open.... And yet all of this has turned out to be false. (3-4)