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dreaj 's review for:
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
Read for 52 Book Club Challenge 2024 #50 A musical instrument on the cover (if you look very carefully there is a tiny grand piano on the cover)
About halfway through this novel about the curse of immortality, I realised I had read it before - in 2018. And it felt like it was treading on familiar ground to other books I have read exploring immortality/reincarnation - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, The first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North etc etc. So a lot of deja vu going on. Which is ironic.
I found the main character, Tom, hard to engage with, probably because he had stopped engaging in life, despite having met Shakespeare and been involved in many key moments in history. Haig's message is that the only way to stop time is to live fully in the present, and who can argue with that?
About halfway through this novel about the curse of immortality, I realised I had read it before - in 2018. And it felt like it was treading on familiar ground to other books I have read exploring immortality/reincarnation - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, The first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North etc etc. So a lot of deja vu going on. Which is ironic.
I found the main character, Tom, hard to engage with, probably because he had stopped engaging in life, despite having met Shakespeare and been involved in many key moments in history. Haig's message is that the only way to stop time is to live fully in the present, and who can argue with that?