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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
Honestly, the author’s note made me cry but the book made me feel nothing.
This book would have been hard for me to resist no matter what as I was bringing up my children on the west side of Manhattan when Emma was living nearby. She has captured the neighborhood in all its wild and crazy and wonderful ways while at the same time telling the deeply poignant story of a daughter having to let her father go and yet, possessing the magic to keep going back to him in younger days. I lost my father when I was 26 when you are supposed to be an adult and yet you aren’t…she captures this feeling so well. I don’t want to be a grown-up yet. If I let you go, I will have to move forward. A good read.
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
If you were a teen in the 90's... read this. If you liked 13 Going on 30 - read this. Different concepts but similar... and so fun. I listened to the audible version and highly recommend - narration was superb in this book. Absolutely loved it.
I adored This Time Tomorrow. I've read almost all of Emma Straub's books and this is so different from her other stuff yet it's still unmistakably her. Alice, the protagonist, just approaching her fortieth birthday and her life is...fine. She has a good job, friends her own apartment, a boyfriend who seems like he's gearing up to propose, but Alice isn't sure that's what she wants or this is even the life she wants. It's not a bad life, it's just not what she thought it could be. As her birthday approaches and as her father's life is coming to an end, Alice gets the opportunity to revisit her 16th birthday and change the sequence of her life forever.
I know that time travel might put some people off, but it works really well for the storyline and never feels too ridiculous. The book is an exploration of aging and family and finding where your place in the world is.
Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC of this book.
I know that time travel might put some people off, but it works really well for the storyline and never feels too ridiculous. The book is an exploration of aging and family and finding where your place in the world is.
Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC of this book.
DNF. I tried so hard any maybe I just didn’t get far enough into it but there was no substance to this book. I had to keep forcing myself through it and I just gave up.
inspiring
lighthearted
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:
Yes
Dragggggged on so much, interesting concept in the end though.
Did not compel me to continue reading, moved slowly and gave too much detail.
I understand Rubani’s review now. Lol.
Did not compel me to continue reading, moved slowly and gave too much detail.
I understand Rubani’s review now. Lol.
An entertaining story involving time travel, albeit in a very limited fashion. The protagonist is about to turn 40 and lives a very lonely life, never having fulfilled her potential. Her father is dying of a long-term cancer-like illness and is in the hospital. On the night of her birthday she drinks too much and ends up going to her childhood home where her Dad's cat still resides. Through a sequence of specific events, she opens up a time portal which transports her back to her 16th birthday.
She finds she has the dual consciousness of her 16 and 40 year old selves and she begins to attempt to make changes in the past, hoping they will improve things (particularly her father's health) in the future. The time portal lasts 24 hours and then she returns to the present, where she is able to see what changes were made.
Through many iterations of this time jump she eventually comes to terms with her reality.
Thought provoking.
She finds she has the dual consciousness of her 16 and 40 year old selves and she begins to attempt to make changes in the past, hoping they will improve things (particularly her father's health) in the future. The time portal lasts 24 hours and then she returns to the present, where she is able to see what changes were made.
Through many iterations of this time jump she eventually comes to terms with her reality.
Thought provoking.