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A review by okiecozyreader
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
hopeful
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
I’m so glad a buddy read motivated me to read this book featuring a father/daughter relationship. The father is a writer, who wrote a time travel/sci fi book. The daughter works at the private school she graduated from, and realizes about her 40th birthday that she isn’t happy with life choices she has made. She finds her old journal of the things she wanted to do, and realizes she hasn’t done much of it. On her birthday night, she goes to sleep in a shed by her father’s home and she wakes up on her 16th birthday. I love how this all deepens her relationship with her father and she is able to understand him better.
If you liked The Midnight Library or In Five Years, you might also like this one. I am so glad I ordered one from Straub’s bookstore, Books are Magic.
“Leonard liked hearing about the kids at school. It wasn’t that Alice and her father weren’t having honest conversations - they were, and better conversations than many people had with their parents, to be sure - but they were conversations that skimmed happily over the surface, like a perfect, flat rock. Ch 13/p57
“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away, and for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you.” P130
“If there was one thing that Alice felt like she’d done wrong, it was being too passive. She hadn’t … broken up with people when she knew they weren’t right for her, she hadn’t ever moved anywhere or done anything surprising. She was just floating. Like a seahorse.” P147
“Joy is coming. … You just gotta keep your eyes open and look for it.” P232
“No wonder there were so many songs about time, and books about time, and movies about time. It was more than hours and minutes, but … all those tiny moments added together. She felt like a walking needlepoint pillow. The way you spend your days is the way you spend your life.” P244
If you liked The Midnight Library or In Five Years, you might also like this one. I am so glad I ordered one from Straub’s bookstore, Books are Magic.
“Leonard liked hearing about the kids at school. It wasn’t that Alice and her father weren’t having honest conversations - they were, and better conversations than many people had with their parents, to be sure - but they were conversations that skimmed happily over the surface, like a perfect, flat rock. Ch 13/p57
“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away, and for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you.” P130
“If there was one thing that Alice felt like she’d done wrong, it was being too passive. She hadn’t … broken up with people when she knew they weren’t right for her, she hadn’t ever moved anywhere or done anything surprising. She was just floating. Like a seahorse.” P147
“Joy is coming. … You just gotta keep your eyes open and look for it.” P232
“No wonder there were so many songs about time, and books about time, and movies about time. It was more than hours and minutes, but … all those tiny moments added together. She felt like a walking needlepoint pillow. The way you spend your days is the way you spend your life.” P244