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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
I’ve said it before and I’ll likely keep saying it forever… books find you when you need them. This book has been on my To Read list since before it was published. I finally checked it out last week, knowing I was about to have several days to read. I picked it up yesterday and nearly read the whole thing in one night. But I felt like I was at a good point to stop about 70 pages until the end. Finishing it this morning, with coffee in hand, after a morning of dreams and reflections… was perfect. It was the right time for this book to find me… as I find my way forward after all this year brought me. ❤️
I just didn’t love the main character- it’s a neat premise but the main character was depressing to me. I had a hard time relating to her.
Time travel that doesn't feel like sci-fi! I liked Emma and I didn't find the story too sentimental as others have complained. Likely I would have connected more with the book and rated it higher if my relationship with my father is as strong as Emma's.
“Being a parent seemed like a truly shitty job - by the time you were old and wise enough to understand the mistakes you’d made, there was literally no chance your children would listen. Everyone had to make their own mistakes.”
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This Time Tomorrow was a fantastic surprise for me - I read The Vacationers ages ago and didn’t really enjoy it. Straub’s subsequent books seemed to get mixed reviews, so I never picked one up. But the buzz around this book and the fact that it came up on the ‘skip the line’ loans from @libby.app , I grabbed it to see what the fuss was about. I’m so glad I did, this was such a engrossing and quick read.
I am a sucker for a time travel trope, and I think Straub did an excellent job with the genre. I won’t say too much more, because it would give away some plot points, but I loved the mechanics of how it brought the main character and her father closer together.
There were so many thoughtful passages on being a parent, how we see our own parents, what makes life meaningful, and what ultimately brings us happiness. Just a delight to read… I may go back now and read some of her backlist.
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This Time Tomorrow was a fantastic surprise for me - I read The Vacationers ages ago and didn’t really enjoy it. Straub’s subsequent books seemed to get mixed reviews, so I never picked one up. But the buzz around this book and the fact that it came up on the ‘skip the line’ loans from @libby.app , I grabbed it to see what the fuss was about. I’m so glad I did, this was such a engrossing and quick read.
I am a sucker for a time travel trope, and I think Straub did an excellent job with the genre. I won’t say too much more, because it would give away some plot points, but I loved the mechanics of how it brought the main character and her father closer together.
There were so many thoughtful passages on being a parent, how we see our own parents, what makes life meaningful, and what ultimately brings us happiness. Just a delight to read… I may go back now and read some of her backlist.
Books with time travel as a major plot device are not usually something that attracts my attention, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
We meet Alice on the eve of her 40th birthday and life is . . . ok. She enjoys her job, she sees her best friend occasionally, and she's ok with where things are romantically. But with her dad in the hospital and things being just 'ok' she wonders if there's something more. So she gets really drunk and passes out in a shed outside her childhood home and wakes up and it's her 16th birthday. Looking at her life with her aged perspective - are there things she would change given the chance to relive the day she turned 16?
I loved the relationship between father and daughter that was the through line and the heart of the story. I think that's what allowed me to suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the narrative to enjoy it as much as I did.
We meet Alice on the eve of her 40th birthday and life is . . . ok. She enjoys her job, she sees her best friend occasionally, and she's ok with where things are romantically. But with her dad in the hospital and things being just 'ok' she wonders if there's something more. So she gets really drunk and passes out in a shed outside her childhood home and wakes up and it's her 16th birthday. Looking at her life with her aged perspective - are there things she would change given the chance to relive the day she turned 16?
I loved the relationship between father and daughter that was the through line and the heart of the story. I think that's what allowed me to suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the narrative to enjoy it as much as I did.
4.5 -Simple and sweet and although part one seemed to drag, it picked up speed to the point of pages running together at the end. A sign of a fun read.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
This book captured two specific time and places so clearly. I also very much admired its structure in that it bounced back and forth in time but also followed the arch of her relationship with her father. I am not sure it is a title I will ever read again because there is a lot of sadness in these pages, but the way it conveyed memory and longing in such a short book was very worth the read.
I liked it, but I know I missed a lot as I’m not a sci-fi reader and this book is time travel based. Just didn’t really get it. Too “big brained” for me.
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated