I probably should have bumped this up to 3 stars, as I didn't really dislike this book as much as I was annoyed by it. It has a very gimmicky premise, which can best be summed up with the tagline from Tom Cruise's movie from last summer: "live, die, repeat." For about the first third of the book, ...
Ursala Todd is born and she dies. We all do, but the circumstances surrounding her life and death are in a constant state of flux. She is born and she dies. She is born, experiences a few sweet years, and she dies. She is born, she lives, she dies. The cycle is ever repeating, but never in quite the...
I snagged this baby at the same time when I thought I had PLENTY of time to do nothing else, but read. I snagged a couple magazines and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk and some other things that I just didn't have time for. Not to say I didn't have time for this and the Squirrel, I did them. Ok, now I feel ...
I have never read anything like this novel, that's for sure. As a fannish person, It rang of time loop and fork-in-the-road AU fic--a chance to explore the many roads a character can take. It's just that in this case, all those roads are explored in one book. Being the structure whore that I am, I...
This book reads a little bit like a mashup of the movies 'Groundhog Day', 'Vantage Point' and 'Sliding Doors' (which is also a book, but I haven't read it yet), and the 'choose-your-own-adventure' type books. If you want to get technical, you might even think of it as being along the lines of a many...
I have read and adored all of Kate Atkinson's books. When I read this book I saw the same attention to detail and the same experienced, well-written novel, but I wasn't so fond of it as her other novels. One of the reasons is because I didn't really understand the ending. If Nancy is found in a ditc...
The trick to the "Groundhog Day"-type story is to set down the groundwork and then, in future iterations, to hit just the highlights so that the reader doesn't get as exhausted as the protagonist typically does. I think Atkinson did a wonderful job of this, balancing just enough "old" information wi...
When I first heard of the premise of this book, I like so many others, was instantly keen to read it. What would happen if a person had to repeat the same life over and over until they got it right? This idea has the potential for greatness. Unfortunately, the young lady of many lives in this story...
Life After Life - Atkinson 5 stars audio performance by Fenella Woolgar Before I started this book, I’d read a number of reviews and summaries. And although none of them were inaccurate, they were still a bit misleading. Yes, it is the story of Ursula Todd as she lives her life over and over agai...
Ursula is born on a snowy night in 1910. Or she should be; sometimes it doesn’t quite work out that way. Once, the doctor didn’t make it in time, and Ursula died in 1910. Another time, she drowns five years later while on holiday and once she takes her own life in Nazi Germany with her daughter. L...
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