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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Time travel is always tricky, but I really enjoyed how Emma Straub created the system in this book. I thought the pacing was perfect, and Alice's emotions felt very authentic. I loved the relationships she had with Sam and Leonard, and I definitely cried at the end. I also really appreciated Straub's note at the end explaining the origin of the story. This one will be great book club fodder!
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
If I could give 1/2 stars, this would be a 3.5* rating.
Alice is turning 40 tomorrow. Her life is, for the most part, good. It may not be what she expected her life to be, but she has a good job, good friends, is happy with her romantic life. Her beloved father, though, is in a coma and does not have long to live. After a full day of work, visiting her father and dinner with her best friend, Alice overindulges and finds herself on a whim deciding to return to her childhood home for the night.
The next morning, Alice wakes up and finds her 40 year old self in her teenage body on her 16th birthday. As she navigates through reliving her birthday and all the teenage drama that goes along with it, she is overjoyed to have the chance to see and talk to her dad again; to see his younger self through different eyes. She begins to wonder if there is anything she can do that will change her father's prognosis in her future.
The book started slowly for me and I was beginning to wonder what all the buzz was about. Once we hit the time travel, things began to move more quickly and cohesively. It finished strong which is why I have rounded up to 4*
Alice is turning 40 tomorrow. Her life is, for the most part, good. It may not be what she expected her life to be, but she has a good job, good friends, is happy with her romantic life. Her beloved father, though, is in a coma and does not have long to live. After a full day of work, visiting her father and dinner with her best friend, Alice overindulges and finds herself on a whim deciding to return to her childhood home for the night.
The next morning, Alice wakes up and finds her 40 year old self in her teenage body on her 16th birthday. As she navigates through reliving her birthday and all the teenage drama that goes along with it, she is overjoyed to have the chance to see and talk to her dad again; to see his younger self through different eyes. She begins to wonder if there is anything she can do that will change her father's prognosis in her future.
The book started slowly for me and I was beginning to wonder what all the buzz was about. Once we hit the time travel, things began to move more quickly and cohesively. It finished strong which is why I have rounded up to 4*
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
4.5
Summary:
Alice’s dad is in the hospital and she is looking over her life as she approaches her 40th birthday. Then, one seemingly random night, she goes back in time and wakes up as a 16 year old. What should she do with this new found time? Can she help to change her dad’s fate?
Thoughts:
I love how self-aware this book was to all of the references of time travel movies that came before it—EXCEPT for the one that I think this most resembles: About Time. While About Time details a father/son relationship, This Time Tomorrow explores a father/daughter relationship, particularly how we cope when we know loved ones may pass away. Listened on audio & the narrator sounded a little like Sarah Koenig
Stand out quotes:
“Alice wasn’t a writer, but she’d spent enough time sitting at dinner tables with novelists to understand that fiction was a myth. Fictional stories, that is. Maybe there were bad ones out there, but the good ones, the good ones—those were always true. Not the facts, not the rights and the lefts, not the plots, which could take place in outer space or in hell or anywhere in between, but the feelings. The feelings were the truth.”
“Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope—hope was honest. Hope was good.”
Summary:
Alice’s dad is in the hospital and she is looking over her life as she approaches her 40th birthday. Then, one seemingly random night, she goes back in time and wakes up as a 16 year old. What should she do with this new found time? Can she help to change her dad’s fate?
Thoughts:
I love how self-aware this book was to all of the references of time travel movies that came before it—EXCEPT for the one that I think this most resembles: About Time. While About Time details a father/son relationship, This Time Tomorrow explores a father/daughter relationship, particularly how we cope when we know loved ones may pass away. Listened on audio & the narrator sounded a little like Sarah Koenig
Stand out quotes:
“Alice wasn’t a writer, but she’d spent enough time sitting at dinner tables with novelists to understand that fiction was a myth. Fictional stories, that is. Maybe there were bad ones out there, but the good ones, the good ones—those were always true. Not the facts, not the rights and the lefts, not the plots, which could take place in outer space or in hell or anywhere in between, but the feelings. The feelings were the truth.”
“Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope—hope was honest. Hope was good.”
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I read this book while quarantined day 3 so it became a bit of a companion. One of nostalgia, warmth and hope. Life is about relationships and attachments, no matter the what, the where or the when. Absolutely loved this book.
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes