
Loved this book! Especially the father-daughter relationship and the 90s throwback references. What a fun take on time-travel.
Loved this book! Especially the father-daughter relationship and the 90s throwback references. What a fun take on time-travel.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What amazing book definitely gonna be a reread for me and a favorite ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Relaxing on my day off decaf iced coffee and reading
Eeek! Sorry for not posting this sooner, but our overwhelming favorite for July was This Time Tomorrow! I‘m pleased that so many campers connected with Alice‘s story.
This Time Tomorrow will go up against How High We Go in the Dark and August‘s winner for Best of #CampLitsy at the end of the summer!
I enjoyed this read, & at times it did seem like it was specifically written for me: Alice is exactly my age, there's tons of 90s nostalgia that charmed me, & I lost my father when I was 19 & it definitely affected me to the point where I feel like someone else before that happened, & a totally different person after. A sweet, tender, moving tale about keeping the ones you love close to you, as well as being a love letter to NYC & the late 90s.
Welcome back campers! I‘m looking forward to your each of your thoughts on all of This Time Tomorrow.
One of my favorite things about Alice and Sam‘s friendship is that Sam immediately believes that Alice is time traveling. It is wonderful when you have a friend that is so supportive in real life! How does this secret affect their friendship? What do you think about the evolution of it through the book? #CampLitsy 🏕
Alice and Leonard have a special relationship, too. I appreciate that they always looked out for each other and prioritized time together. In the second half, Alice tries to deepen her connection with her dad in the past. How well did Alice use her extra time with Leonard? What would you do if given the chance for more time with a special person in your life? #CampLitsy 🏕
Our last question for this book and for me as your main camp leader. I have really enjoyed facilitating discussions with this fantastic group! Thank you. I‘ll post the voting poll for your favorite book of July tomorrow and @BarbaraBB will check in soon with a schedule for Either/Or in August. 👍🏻🏕
In the meantime, what did you think of how this story was told and its ending? Was it a comedy or a tragedy or something else? #CampLitsy
This book adeptly addresses parent-child relationships, friendships, love matches, and midlife existential crises. I read it during a 24-hour stretch that was particularly challenging for me emotionally, and it helped bring some perspective to my real-life situation, which is one of the things I like fiction to do.
A love story about the bond between a father and daughter. Also, time travel. It‘s funny and moving and just wonderful. ❤️❤️❤️
Well, look at that. Turns out I bought a signed copy. Shows how well I pay attention.
As someone who is close to her dad, I adored this novel about a father and daughter‘s love. I‘m really enjoying our #CampLitsy discussions!
Alice is 40, living alone, and comfortably ensconced as an admissions officer at a private NYC school. But her father is dying, and there‘s so much she wants to say. On the night of her 40th birthday she finds a time portal that takes her back to age 16. Can she find a way to change her dad‘s fate or her own?
I really enjoyed this ⛺️. Such a lovely read. Its a serious contender. I won‘t say anymore until our camp discussion next Saturday.
This is a pic of me last week at our IRL Bookclub, we recently decided to take a picture of the month‘s book with the person who recommended it, for our group app. 🙄 🙄 ( I think it was my wine fuelled idea 😂 🍷 )
Enjoyed this one much more than her last, ‘All Adults Here‘ - even the time travel bits, that I didn‘t think would do much for me, all worked. A good summer read.
Onto a new book! Since many have read the whole book this time, I‘ve tried to craft questions that are unlikely to cause spoilers, but please be mindful. We‘ll talk more plot next week.
Alice travels back to high school, and this quote took me right back to my Class of 1998 years. (Go Eagles!) So is there anything you wish you had known? Do you feel kinship with this quote? Why or why not? #CampLitsy
NYC is as much a character in this novel as the human ones. Alice, her father, and her friends visit many places and restaurants that no longer exist. NYC is often written about with nostalgia in other books, too. How well does this quote fit the NYC from this book, literature, pop culture, or your in-person visits? Are there any NYC places you miss? #CampLitsy
I‘ve always found time travel interesting. Each book or movie has its own rules. Without spoilers, do you think Alice has the chance to make things right for her father? Do you think there‘s a way to improve the future with time travel? Bonus: if given the opportunity, would you try?
When you‘re back from your time travels, we have campfire s‘mores tonight! 😉🏕 See you back next week to discuss the whole book! #CampLitsy
Don‘t mind me, I‘ll just be sitting in Helen‘s camper van sobbing until we gather round the campfire tomorrow. I wasn‘t sure the time travel aspect was going to work for me, but I absolutely loved it. It definitely hit differently because of personal stuff but it was “right book, right time.” 👍🏼 #camplitsy
“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?”
This book 💔. I can‘t remember having read about fathers and daughters more lovingly. Or about New York for that matter. The time traveling added more wise lessons than I could have wished for.
I‘d be surprised if this book won‘t be my #CampLitsy winner.
(Pic: Havana, Cuba)
❤️❤️ This book feels so personal at times ❤️❤️
A very slow week with the books. I‘m on page 135 ( nearly to page 157 👍🏻) so I‘ll be ready to go this time ⛺️ tomorrow. #Camplitsy
Somehow this was my first Straub which seems strange to me. There is a time travel aspect to this book but really it is about a daughter‘s love for her father, the difficulty of facing losing a parent and wishing we had appreciated the time we had with them more. This hit me in the feels with both of my parents aging in ways that have totally redefined our relationships.
Guess what WASN‘T on my Weekly Forecast this morning? So guess what I‘ve started reading?!
Very much enjoying this so far, though I‘m not too sure what it is yet. I might even make next week‘s #CampLitsy conversation!
Also, trying out a new audiobook app. It‘s a small UK (Cornwall)-based indie. No subscription, just buy-as-you-go. And their unique thing is that where licences permit, you get the e- and audiobooks together (not this one, sadly).
Enjoyed this 👍🏻 will wait for further discussion!
#camplitsy
Attention campers! It‘s time to start our fourth book of the summer, This Time Tomorrow. We‘re reading through chapter 30 (to page 157 in my US hardcover edition or 52% in the audiobook). I have just finished reading to that point, and I‘m loving it! I hope you do, too.
See you back Saturday! Meanwhile the arts and crafts cabin and the pool are open if you can tear yourself away from our large library. 😉🏕 #CampLitsy
Wow! I'm surprised at how much I loved this. What seemed to start out as a summer movie, rom-com, time travel romp proved to be so much more.
I've been a bad camper for the last few #camplitsy books. (Like I hid in the cabin when I was supposed to be playing softball 😅). But now I'm all caught up and excited to discuss the next two! Bring on the 90s nostalgia.
Next up, Our Wives Under the Sea. 🧜♀️
This book was just lovely and sad. When it got to a certain part it was just heartbreaking.
My books have had an unintentional 90s theme lately. I couldn‘t put this book down at a certain point and had to keep reading. I‘ve only read a few Emma Straub books but I‘m glad I picked this one up.
I don‘t know if I‘ve ever read a contemporary book that was sci-fi for 1 person.
#CampLitsy
Another sweet one to add to the mix of time travel books. It establishes rules quickly & makes sense without getting too bogged down. It reminds me of the movie About Time. It‘s more about the relationship w/her father than anything else. It‘s got a lot of love for NYC. A great one to listen to while packing!
“What a very long time one had to be an adult, after rushing through childhood and adolescence. There should be several more distinctions.”
When she was young, she'd thought he was old, and now that he was old, Alice realized how young he'd been. Perspective was unfair.
ETA: This was such a good read. For a while, I thought it was going the route of Family Man, and felt a bit let down, but this turned out to be so much more. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Perfect summer reading. Very much enjoyed this one. I loved the two central relationships. I just thought it was sweet, well considered, and just lovely overall. A love story that's not a romance.
Also a love letter to New York, and I really enjoyed spending time in Emma Straub's NY, past and present.
Definitely going to be my pick for #camplitsy this month
Joined by a sunbather #dogsoflitsy #camplitsy
If anyone needs me, this is where I'll be... ☀️
I was allowed a little interlude in Waterstones during todays shopping trip! Today‘s purchases.
2/2 for this months #camplitsy reads! I‘m so glad I decided to participate in this, this summer.
It was a treat to finish this book in my car during a rainstorm! 📖 🌩 I loved this poignant story that touched on so many feelings and thoughts that are familiar to me. I was a bit skeptical about a time travel novel but it was brilliantly done. Looking forward to discussing later this month! #CampLitsy
I had so much fun reading this one. It's not perfect, but it was really enjoyable and well paced with likeable characters. Great for summer reading. And a very good sense of place, I'm craving New York after reading this!
Another pick for a book that Ann Patchett has blurbed. Didn‘t realize until I finished the book. I very much enjoyed this story of Alice trying to figure out what life she wants to create. Looking forward to discuss more. I took a few snapshots of great quotes as well as questions that popped up.
Holy ‘90s nostalgia! A time travel novel which is at its heart a love story between a parent and child. Alice was raised in NYC by a single father whose claim to fame is an incredibly popular time travel novel that was also adapted into a successful TV series. On her 40th birthday she travels back to 1996 on a pivotal night.
All the references to other time travel narratives in the book were fun. Sweet story with a good message. #CampLitsy
Straub mentions someone I haven't thought of in years. Marion Ettlinger. Marion was in Burlington, VT at some point years ago. She took pictures of many of my friends - I was told she was experimenting and needed practice. Her photos were some of the most stunning images of my friends that I'd ever seen. Over the years I kept seeing her name on book jackets as authors became her subjects. Check her gallery out: http://www.marionettlinger.com/
A truly lovely story with a central father-daughter relationship that will make you want to put down the book, but only to call those you love. The time-travel hook really works, not too complicated, with some really fun high school throwbacks. But its Alice and her dad that make this book so special. So beautifully written, with emotional resonance without being sickly sweet. I definitely shed a tear (or two!) Love Straub! #pop22 #parallelreality
“… something with hired wait staff passing around tiny quiches.” #PieinLit #LitPie #CaresPieShow #Quiche_is_pie
I listened to Love‘s Forever Changes as a teenager and thanks to Spotify I‘ve been listening to it again for the past few years. I never hear anyone talk about this band or this album. It‘s a good one. Many thanks to Straub for mentioning them.
Starting this one (for #CampLitsy, right?! Probably should time it better 😟) and getting a mani pedi today in prep for a trip.
This time tomorrow, I will have pretty toes and fingers 💅 and hopefully be fully invested in this story. I love #TimeTravel
I went in totally blind, had no idea what this was going to be about. I wound up really liking it. It made me cry.
Thanks #CampToB for voting it into the list, I‘m not sure I would have picked it up on my own. Looking forward to the discussion!
My first Emma Straub! Not my last! (Won‘t be hard to continue since I have three of her books from Little Free Libraries/library book sales sitting [literally] pretty on my shelves.) I really enjoyed this and hope I still remember my many thoughts when its #CampLitsy moment arrives in late July! Hardcover pictured based on its beauty alone bc I 100% read on audio and couldn‘t tear myself away from Marin Ireland‘s great narration (though I tried!).
I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I liked the time travel element (especially since I, too, was 16 and a high school junior in 1996), but what I liked most was the father-daughter relationship between Leonard and Alice. It felt very personal and honest. Looking forward to our #CampLitsy discussions next month!