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the rare novel that leaves you torn between feverishly turning pages and setting it down so you can call the people you love.
4 -5 stars rounded up. As Alice Stern's 40th birthday is fast approaching, she ruminates on the time it takes to die as she watches her beloved father, novelist Leonard doing exactly that. Without giving too much away she finds a portal which transports her back to her 16th birthday in 1996! I find myself deeply envious of the opportunities this affords Alice especially in her relationship with Leonard.I love Emma Straub’s books so I guess I am very much the target audience for this one! The qua...
I found Straub's last book ALL ADULTS HERE a bit too schmaltzy for me but I am a sucker for time travel so I picked this one up. But I forgot when I did so that the Schmaltzy Time Travel story is a thing (Quantum Leap, for starters) because time travel can make you get all nostalgic about how things used to be/could have been. I could have forgiven a lot of the schmaltz of the second half if the first half was more cohesive. We start off laying the groundwork, showing us where Alice is in her li...
**I received an ARC of this title from the publisher, because I am a librarian and librarians are awesome!**Probably one of my faves of the year, for overall poignancy and a great take on the time travel trope. Also, cheers to being sixteen in 1996. Every reference, from the music to Rum Raisin to the Reality Bites poster to the faux Jordan Catalano leather thong choker was spot on. CK One! The Craft! I want to send this to all of the best girl friends I had at sixteen, but it's not out until Ma...
This book was excellent, similar in feel to The Midnight Library or The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I loved the time travel aspect and how it all ties together. The relationship between father & daughter too just give the reader more of an emotional impact than the "typical" time travel story.
Absolutely wonderful. The best time travel book I’ve read in a long time.
I’ve read reviews of other books by Emma Straub comparing her writing to sunshine and I’d agree that her words absolutely sparkle on these pages. It’s a time travel novel for sure, but it’s about so much more than that. It’s about love, death, NYC, and how the choices we make stay with us forever. I savored every page and will be gifting this to all of my friends when it is released.“It’s not about the time. It’s about how you spend it.” Spend it reading this beautiful book!Thank you to Penguin
"This Time Tomorrow" is what we all hoped "The Midnight Library" would be: smart, well-crafted, evocative prose, and just the right amount of cheesiness that is inevitable in a time-travel story. On her 40th birthday, Alice travels back in time to her 16th birthday, and devises a plan to save her ailing father who is on his deathbed in the current timeline. The father-daughter relationship is truly the beating heart of this novel, and is depicted with humor and compassion. All of the 80s and 90s...
3.5 rounded up.
Adding this to my want to be read shelf is the equivalent to me saying: Hi I want to CRY
4.25 stars - Review to follow
Between my love of time travel books, Emma Straub's continued praise, and the glowing reviews I read, I was expecting This Time Tomorrow to be a highlight of the year. It's well written, and I do love the femininity that comes through Straub's writing here... It's not just that Alice is a female protagonist, nor is there any overtly feminist messaging in the plot or characters, but there is an inherent feminine quality to the writing itself that really shines. This non-romantic, non-feminist, bu...
CW: parental deathThis book felt like a hug and conversation with my grandmother, who passed in 2020. It met me at the right moment and at the right time. I know that I’m supposed to tell you why you should check this book out and here is why: it deals with grief. It’s funny. It’s smart. It’s creative. It’s kind. And it is a hell of a fucking book.Thank you to Riverhead for providing me with an ARC.
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub is a fresh take on time travel and the relationship between a woman and her father. What I thought was going to take on a story similar to Oona Out of Order or The Midnight Library actually took on a plot all its own. I enjoyed the love between Alice and Leonard, her father, as she attempts to discover a way to save him in the present by decisions she made on her 16th birthday. I did my best to disconnect the story from my own life otherwise I'd be a balling mes...
This had everything I wanted. Humor and heart are woven together to create a new take on a classic idea: if you could go back and change one thing, what would it be? Straub’s writing pulls you in and doesn’t let you go until the very last page, and even then I found myself wanting more.
Time travel novels generally make me cranky trying to sort out the logic and ignore the plot holes. Straub's previous novels were hit-or-miss for me. But despite those facts, this book charmed me. It helps that I'm the same age as the main character (and, incidentally, Straub), so the mid-'90s nostalgia hits perfectly. But I also liked that the story is mostly concerned with a parent-child relationship and a friendship that survives life's interruptions. And I appreciated how the time travel pra...
