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Recommended by a bookseller at Galena Book and Paper, she said it was one of the best books she had read recently and one of the owner's recent favorites. I hadn't heard of it yet, but it was too good of a recommendation to pass up. It's a quiet novel about the residents of a small-town in Maine and a reminder of the complex lives people lead behind their public faces. Beautifully written! I will read whatever this debut author puts out next.

August 1999, Red Knot, Delaware. Michael and his babysitter Gibby meet Ridge who proclaims he‘s the first successful time traveler, from the future. A mix of adventure, friendships, loss, and lessons about ‘being‘ in the moment🧡

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You‘ve been in my thoughts a lot @BookNAround … hope you‘re all doing ok ♥️

And a huge thank you for thinking of me on my birthday. I‘ve seen lots of press around this book and excited to try a new to me author. Thank you honey xx

Small town Maine, the realities and the blessings, even when the worst happens. Glad I read it.

“It's going to be okay. I'll make friends, and if I don't, I'll borrow books from the library.”

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Here‘s a list of Kindle reads I thought would be good for the month of October.
Look forward to seeing how many I can get through.

“I walked into Haddows , took a cheap bottle of wine to the till and counted out most of my money .”

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A cute YA where a girl time travels to the 1990s to help her mom win Homecoming Queen!

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I really enjoyed the interplay of the two storylines of the female protagonists. The mystery of Arlette's beneficiary that runs through the plot unravelled in a clever and enjoyable way. I liked the inclusion of the varied backgrounds of changing post-war Britian. Would have liked a few more chapters to allow some aspects of the secondary characters to be more developed. But a very enjoyable read.

I‘m not generally a fan of time travel stories, but in this was a light, fun read with 1990s pop culture. McKinley travels back in time from 2018 to 1993 when her dad was in middle school. Although there‘s discussion of the possibility of changing the future, it turns out a bunch of kids from this town have traveled in time and it never seems to cause a problem. Instead, the focus is on personal growth from a change in perspective.

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