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This Time Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow: A Novel | Emma Straub
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The New York Timesbestselling author of The Vacationers and All Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving father-daughter story and a playful twist on the idea of time travel What if you could take a vacation to your past? On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alices life isnt terrible. She likes her job, even if it isnt exactly the one she expected. Shes happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her father, the single parent who raised her, is ailing and out of reach. How did they get here so fast? Did she take too much for granted along the way? When Alice wakes up the next morning somehow back in 1996, it isnt her sixteen-year-old body that is the biggest shock, or the possibility of romance with her adolescent crush. Its her dad: the vital, charming, forty-nine-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, is there anything that she should do differently this time around? What would she change, given the chance? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love storyabout the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child.
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monkeygirlsmama
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💗💚💛🧡💗💚💛🧡 Loved everything about this book right down to the afterward/author's note at the very end. She wanted her readers to cry, and I can 100% say she was successful when it came to this reader - though mostly it was exactly during this portion of the #audiobook.😝😢💙

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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rachelk
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I just realized that Emma Straub‘s dad was Peter Straub (mental note to move his book ‘Ghost Story‘ up the tbr pile). This novel is really a love letter to a fictionalized version of him from a fictionalized version of her. I enjoyed the sweet father-daughter dynamic. The time travel aspect made me feel wistful and wish I could occasionally go back in time too.

slategreyskies This is perhaps an odd comment to make on your post, but I just wanted to say that I love the word wistful. I‘d forgotten about it. I can‘t remember the last time I heard someone use it. 🤍 7mo
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Labmongrel
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“It‘s okay to lose people…Loss is the point. You can‘t take away the grief, the pain, because then what are you left with?”

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SheilaChew
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reading and knitting

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jdiehr
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Main character Alice keeps traveling back and forth from her 40th birthday to her 16th birthday with the focus on her relationship with her father.

The love between father and daughter is heartwarming.

Of course, she tweaks different things on each trip to the past, but nothing can change the inevitability of death.

The author's note at the end really added to the beauty of the story.

*Photo is the Umpqua River a few years after a fire

cinda.marie Good review! I enjoyed this one too 9mo
SamAnne Love the Umpqua country! 9mo
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Donna1980
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Hard to resist this cover. 15 pages in and I‘m hooked!

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cinda.marie
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A woman travels back in time to the day of her 16th birthday and changes a few things in an attempt to make her (and her father‘s) life turn out differently. A slow start, but clever and moving, and well worth the read. Bonus: In some ways, the story is reminiscent of the movie Groundhog Day, so now is the perfect time to read it! #litsylovereads

Chelsea.Poole I love this one! 10mo
Kerrbearlib Sounds like a cool book! 6mo
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Kristy_K
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This is one of those books that grows on you as you read it and gets better with each turn of the page. Anyone close to their dad is guaranteed to shed a few tears.

A great first pick from my #auldlangspine match @JackOBotts that I probably wouldn‘t have picked up otherwise!

BarbaraBB Loved this one 10mo
TheLudicReader This was my favourite book in 2023. 10mo
Kristy_K @BarbaraBB @TheLudicReader I‘m glad it was put on my radar as I totally missed it last year. 10mo
JackOBotts @Kristy_K I‘m glad it grew on you & you enjoyed. 10mo
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Larkken
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#12Booksof2023 Day 5: aha, i realised this morning I never posted this yesterday... And it's not because I didn't like it, but i guess i wasn't sure it was my favorite from this month? It is very sentimental, and VERY rooted in the 80s/90s NYC. However, it's a love letter from a daughter to her father, and given my own close relationship with my dad, and that I'm from the same decade as the author, I found it very moving. All the tears.

Andrew65 A popular book. 11mo
BarbaraBB I loved this one too! 11mo
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JackOBotts
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My September #Roll100 pick - in many ways a love letter to Straub‘s father, who passed a few months after its publication, Straub tells the story of a daughter‘s quest to spend more time with her father…through time travel. Beautiful, touching, a keeper.

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1y
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julieclair
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A well-written time travel novel that is more thought provoking than kitschy. Explores the themes of father-daughter relationships, lifelong friendships, end of life issues, the angst of being 16 and the angst of being 40. How would our lives be different if we had made different choices in the past? And would different lives make us happier?

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Skeeterisme
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Great

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Eggs Pretty 🩷 🕰️🩵 1y
TheLudicReader My favourite book so far this year. 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheLudicReader awesome!! Good to know 🩷 1y
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TheLudicReader
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#MidYearFreakOut tagged by @dabbe
1. Hands down: tagged book.
2. N/A
3. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
4. I have a lot of great books to look forward to, I am sure…but when they will be released. 🤷‍♀️
5. Lessons in Chemistry
6. Brother by Ania Ahlborn
7. Hard to say since I hate to judge anyone on one book.
8. Celine and Brad from Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
9. Tagged
10. See #8
11. 😳
12. It‘s a long list.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Your biggest disappointment is my favorite 🤣 1y
TheLudicReader @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love that no two people read the same book. 1y
dabbe 💙💚💙 1y
JuniperWilde Same here for #5 1y
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aWiseWoz
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Hey! I read a book! Took me a long time (because of life not because of the book) but I'm glad I finished. Wonderful book, worth a read.

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Larkken
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Goodbye, May 💃🏻
I‘m doing terribly at my New Year resolution to read slowly as I‘ve been flying through audiobooks like crazy… but at least this means I can tick off two bingos for #bookspinbingo and finally mark a few lagging #roll100 books as read!
The tagged was a roll100 from a month or so ago (oops) and my fav of the month. It just barely overcame Essex Serpent (another roll100 🙃) and Vera Wong, which was a whim and unexpected hit for me.

Larkken (VWUAfM would be a great cozy mystery for someone looking for AAPI representation and an older, meddlesome Asian-American mother as the MC! And a fun audiobook 😉) 1y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Great month!!! 1y
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1y
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kelli7990
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Today, I‘m sharing a book I received in the mail. Penguin Random House sent this book to me. I‘ve never read a book by Emma Straub. This book sounds interesting. I‘m looking forward to reading it.

On Sale: May 16, 2023 (I just looked at the date on my phone and realized that that‘s today‘s date.) Happy Publication Day to This Time Tomorrow!

#bookmail #happypublicationday

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Eva_B
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Loved, loved, loved this book! A refreshing take on a daughter and father family dynamic. Beautifully written!

BarbaraBB 💯 agree! 2y
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AileenRR
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Loved this one! Such a good feeling when you‘ve got a book you can‘t wait to get back to. Loved the friendship and the parent/child relationship. Only thing missing was a definitive epilogue.

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DHill
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Why have I not read Emma Straub before? I loved this. Poignant but with humor, it was charming and relatable.

BarbaraBB I loved this one too 💟 2y
Cinfhen It was so good 😊 2y
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DHill
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Next up on audio and my first by Emma Straub.

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ncsufoxes
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Another book I finished in March, #bookspin. This one started off slow for me but then the last half moved faster. It was an interesting idea of if you had the chance to go back what version of your life would you pick. Alice is grappling with the impending death of her father. She (accidentally) time travels on her 40th birthday to her 16th. For a few weeks she keeps going back to see if there is a way to change her father‘s fate. In turn she

ncsufoxes makes the most of her time travels & memories with her dad. 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
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suvata
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Alice goes on a bender on the night of her 40th birthday. When she wakes up the next morning somehow back in 1996, it isn't her 16-year-old body that is the biggest shock, or the possibility of romance with her adolescent crush, it's her dad: the vital, charming, 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, is there anything that she should do differently this time around?

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SamAnne
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#UnpopularOpinion. For me, this felt like a bit of a hot mess. I‘m sure it would have been a more fun trip down memory lane if I wasn‘t 15 years older than the protagonist. But if I‘m going to read about privileged New York people I need a more interesting story. Having helped my parents through their final hours, I needed a better story to make it worth reliving. Same on having to face cancer this year. And how old was that cat anyway?

TheLudicReader Haha. I am twenty years older than the narrator and I loved every second of this book. Go figure. Lol. 2y
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KristiAhlers
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I honestly download this one because it's on my #TimeMagazineTop100ReadsOf2022 and wasn't hoping for much as I passed on it several times. Well, this is me kinda kicking myself for putting it off so long. Have a box of kleenex and sit back and enjoy. So many feels! #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
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Sharpeipup
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This #quote really made me pause.

📸 bookaapi

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TheLudicReader
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LOVE!! This is the first book this year that I can honestly say I loved. It made me cry more than once; it made me stop and think; it gave me all. the. feels. On her 40th birthday Alice time travels back to her 16th birthday and tries to recapture some part of her life …not her youth exactly because she perfectly happy at 40…but she wonders how some things might be different. It‘s just a fabulous, big-hearted book.

IndoorDame 😻😻😻 2y
BarbaraBB I loved this one exactly as much and for the same reasons 🤍 2y
dabbe Da darling kitty! ❣️🐾❣️ 2y
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AudiobookingWithLeah
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3¾⭐
You know how Groundhog Day got to be really monotonous with his constant do-overs because he was trying to change one specific thing and couldn‘t get it right? That‘s what this was like. Was it a dealbreaker…not entirely. Well, if it weren‘t for the last couple of hours where the story mostly redeemed itself, it might've been. Overall, this wasn‘t my favorite time travel story but it was definitely not the worst. Also…what was up with the cat?

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vlwelser
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This is ok. It's like an ode to the author's dad tbh. I maybe can't relate to that or something. It was ok. Time travel books might not be my jam.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2y
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EadieB
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#FabulousFebruaryReadathon #BookSpinBingo

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice decides to travel back to 1996 when she was 16 years old. She sees her dad as vital and charming instead of ailing as he is today. Armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything she would change if she could?

EadieB Emma Straub with her celebrated humor, insight and heart gives us a traditional time travel book that is a different kind of love story. This is a love story between a father and his daughter. I look forward to reading another book by this author. If you like books with wry humor and tremendous heart, then you would love this book. 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
Andrew65 Well done 😁 2y
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canbku
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Kinda slow to start, but really fun and interesting. Super heartfelt and sweet in so many ways without being saccharine or silly.

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BarbaraBB
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#12BooksOf2022

This might very well be my favorite book of the year. I read it in July, a month after my father died, and I loved the father/daughter parts in the book. I cried my eyes out but it felt good.
A perfect example of the right book at the right time.

Librariana I'm glad this book found you at the right time. I do hope it was able to bring a bit of comfort 💜 2y
BarbaraBB @Librariana Thank you 🤍 it certainly did! 2y
Megabooks 🫶🏻 2y
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Made me think.

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Centique
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I had read really good reviews of this book and I went into it with very high expectations…. and I thoroughly enjoyed it! But I do wish I had read it with no idea what it was about - I would have been much more swept away by it without my preconceived ideas.
Darn it, I feel like this is a 5 star book that I robbed myself of. Oh well, maybe I‘ll get it on audio next year and experience it again.

Ruthiella It happens! 😢 2y
Centique @Ruthiella it does! Must go back to my strategy of giving myself a year to forget what I‘ve heard. 😝 2y
Ruthiella @Centique Excellent strategy! I often avoid reviews on Litsy and elsewhere when I know I want to read a book for fear of knowing/expecting too much. It‘s a delicate balance! #ReaderProblems 2y
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Centique @Ruthiella me too! I know we are both time travel book fans, I think I should be particularly careful about reviews for those books, the potential for finding favourites is high! 2y
squirrelbrain Great review! Hopefully you an comeback to it later and find that extra star ⭐️! 2y
Clwojick Good to hear - My hold just came in, and I have no idea what it‘s about! 😊 2y
BarbaraBB I know what you mean. I went in blind and it turned out to be a 5 star read 2y
Rissreads You have sold me! 💜 2y
Centique @Rissreads oh good! And I hope it works that 5 star magic for you 💕 2y
CarolynM Great review! I have a copy, I‘ll have to bump it up my priority list🙂 Your Christmas gift from me has apparently just landed in NZ more than 2 weeks after it was sent😡 I‘ve got my fingers crossed you might just get it tomorrow. 2y
Centique @CarolynM oh gosh do not worry at all! I will love it whenever it arrives 🥰 2y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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This was a sweet and poignant book, mainly because my dad died way too young, like Alice (and the author). I understood Alice‘s impulse to remake her dad‘s habits and possibly keep him around for a few more years. Straub‘s writing also floats around all many universal truths. Rather than repeatedly walloping us, she inches various options forward and lets Alice lead the way.

Full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com #thebibliophage2022

GidgetsTreasures75 Loved this one 💖 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @GidgetsTreasures75 It‘s just such a book from the heart. And then to have her own father, author Peter Straub, pass away soon after. 😭😭 2y
GidgetsTreasures75 @BarbaraTheBibliophage yes! I lost my father 22 years ago and this book just hit me with its love for the character‘s dad and then her own dad. How sad that he passed but I‘m glad he got to see this published. It‘s such a love letter to their relationship. 2y
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AlizaApp
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I absolutely loved this novel about loss and love and aging and life. Alice, who is about to turn 40, accidentally time travels back to her 16th birthday and is taken aback by how young her (now dying) father is, how many choices still are ahead of her, the closeness with her best friend who now lives in the suburbs with a family. She must figure out if she can change her present - or if she even wants to.

BarbaraBB Loved this too! 2y
Chelsea.Poole Me too! 2y
BittersweetBooks One of my favorite reads from this year! 2y
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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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I enjoyed this, and felt that the time travel elements offered something new (even if it‘s a common trope). This is obviously a love letter to the author‘s father, and I found the father-daughter relationship in the novel to be very sweet. My favorite parts were the NYC setting and the nostalgia I have for my 90s teenage years. I don‘t want to relive them though. 😂 Ultimately, I didn‘t get the emotional punch I wanted or expected from this. 3⭐️

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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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My lofty goals for #novelnovember! I am hoping with a five day holiday, I can get some good reading time in!

Andrew65 Best of luck 😁 2y
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Beatlefan129
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Thank you @Deblovestoread for the perfect #AllHallowsRead swap package. I just know I will love both of these books and the candy will be gone in no time 🧡

Scochrane26 The friends bookmark looks really fun (edited) 2y
Deblovestoread Glad you like it! 😊 2y
GidgetsTreasures75 I loved This Time Tomorrow!💖📖 (edited) 2y
tpixie Both books are great! Really loved Lessons! 2y
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FortunateSon
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I read a lot of time-travel fiction, and this is definitely one of the better ones. This is the book that I wanted The Midnight Library to be. That one left me feeling underwhelmed, but this one was much more worthwhile.

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Mirazzles
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Just starting this one, but so far, I‘m really liking it!

Librariana I stopped this one early on because I needed to read for the September buddy read (still not done with that one either, but that's how I roll!) 🤣😁😊 Point being, I was really enjoying this one, too!! I love the premise and knowing that the author's father recently passed away (and that she thinks of this work as semi-autobiographical), really gives this an added sense of sentimentality/wonder/magic 💜 2y
Mirazzles @Librariana I do the same thing, I‘m currently reading about 17 books. I can‘t help it haha 😂 I didn‘t know that about the reader but I do think it adds some magic! My father died and reading the author say her father was only 73 made me think of my father. He was 71. I think this author captures the sentimentality beautifully! I think I‘ll love this book and probably cry haha. I hope you enjoy it too! 😊 2y
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Prairiegirl_reading
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If I‘m honest I have to say that I struggled with this book. It took me an entire month to finish. I couldn‘t stay focused on it and wasn‘t always compelled to pick it up when I had time to read. HOWEVER, part six (the last 27 pages) wrecked me. It is absolutely beautiful and made the pace of the rest make sense and totally worth while. I DNF a lot but I‘m glad I wouldn‘t let myself give up on this one. Thanks “Past Angie”.

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DavidDiamond
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3.5 stars
This love letter to her father, author Peter Straub (who died this month), was a fun take on the "if you could go back and time and change things, would you?" trope.
I love these types of books, but for me there was too much back and forth and repetitive scenarios.
Nor did it pack the emotional punch I was expecting.

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FortunateSon
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I'm a total time-travel junkie, so hopefully this one doesn't disappoint!

BarbaraBB It‘s very good! 2y
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