Anonymous
04/25/2023 14:06
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
If you could go back in time and make different decisions, would you? That question is at the center of Emma Straub’s big-hearted new novel, This Time Tomorrow. The protagonist, Alice, drunkenly falls asleep on her 40th birthday and wakes up in her childhood bedroom on her 16th birthday. She’s wistful about carefree days with her best friend and the teen boy who got away, but blown away by her youthful, healthy father, and an opportunity to change his life nearly 25 years later. This novel is a sweet take on the passing of time, the power of relationships, the misguided rush to adulthood, and the pressure to achieve arbitrary milestones in life. The time travel never feels gimmicky, and ‘80s kids will appreciate the references to Back to the Future. It’s breezy, yet smart—check it out for your next book club pick!
that's basically Peggy Sue Got Married in book form
except she isn't married to the guy at the beginning of the book, also much of the focus is her relationship with her aging/young father
Anonymous
04/25/2023 13:37
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
If you could go back in time and make different decisions, would you? That question is at the center of Emma Straub’s big-hearted new novel, This Time Tomorrow. The protagonist, Alice, drunkenly falls asleep on her 40th birthday and wakes up in her childhood bedroom on her 16th birthday. She’s wistful about carefree days with her best friend and the teen boy who got away, but blown away by her youthful, healthy father, and an opportunity to change his life nearly 25 years later. This novel is a sweet take on the passing of time, the power of relationships, the misguided rush to adulthood, and the pressure to achieve arbitrary milestones in life. The time travel never feels gimmicky, and ‘80s kids will appreciate the references to Back to the Future. It’s breezy, yet smart—check it out for your next book club pick!
that's basically Peggy Sue Got Married in book form
Anonymous
04/25/2023 13:35
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
If you could go back in time and make different decisions, would you? That question is at the center of Emma Straub’s big-hearted new novel, This Time Tomorrow. The protagonist, Alice, drunkenly falls asleep on her 40th birthday and wakes up in her childhood bedroom on her 16th birthday. She’s wistful about carefree days with her best friend and the teen boy who got away, but blown away by her youthful, healthy father, and an opportunity to change his life nearly 25 years later. This novel is a sweet take on the passing of time, the power of relationships, the misguided rush to adulthood, and the pressure to achieve arbitrary milestones in life. The time travel never feels gimmicky, and ‘80s kids will appreciate the references to Back to the Future. It’s breezy, yet smart—check it out for your next book club pick!
If you could go back in time and make different decisions, would you? That question is at the center of Emma Straub’s big-hearted new novel, This Time Tomorrow. The protagonist, Alice, drunkenly falls asleep on her 40th birthday and wakes up in her childhood bedroom on her 16th birthday. She’s wistful about carefree days with her best friend and the teen boy who got away, but blown away by her youthful, healthy father, and an opportunity to change his life nearly 25 years later. This novel is a sweet take on the passing of time, the power of relationships, the misguided rush to adulthood, and the pressure to achieve arbitrary milestones in life. The time travel never feels gimmicky, and ‘80s kids will appreciate the references to Back to the Future. It’s breezy, yet smart—check it out for your next book club pick!
Anonymous
04/25/2023 08:16
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
New poster here. Which one was the one where the woman went to the beach for family vacation with her family, and then she decided to go for a walk . . . and then kept walking and walking? ( I won't say what happens after that or it would spoil the whole book if someone wanted to read it)
Ladder of Years
Anonymous
04/24/2023 21:55
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
Both are taken at the library. What's your third pick
The Accidental Tourist or Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
I am a Anne Tyler newb but I note the Redhead book is $1.99 today on kindle. And Breathing Lessons won a Pulitzer.
Anonymous
04/24/2023 21:53
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Hagitude
Anonymous
04/24/2023 21:40
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Midnight library by Matt haig
Woman gets to live out all her alternate realities to see the choices she regrets and how they might have played out
Woman gets to live out all her alternate realities to see the choices she regrets and how they might have played out
Anonymous
04/24/2023 21:27
Subject: Re:Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
So not about a women, but I loved Less by Andrew Sean Greer.
Anonymous
04/24/2023 21:16
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous
04/24/2023 21:14
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
New poster here. Which one was the one where the woman went to the beach for family vacation with her family, and then she decided to go for a walk . . . and then kept walking and walking? ( I won't say what happens after that or it would spoil the whole book if someone wanted to read it)
That's BREATHING LESSONS
No, Breathing Lessons is the older couple that goes on a car ride to a funeral and reflects on their lives. Ladder of Years is where the middle-aged mom walks away from her family during a vacation at a Delaware beach.
Anonymous
04/24/2023 20:53
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
New poster here. Which one was the one where the woman went to the beach for family vacation with her family, and then she decided to go for a walk . . . and then kept walking and walking? ( I won't say what happens after that or it would spoil the whole book if someone wanted to read it)
That's BREATHING LESSONS
Anonymous
04/24/2023 20:51
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Books (all NF, can't think of fiction):
Why we can't sleep
On being 40ish
Life reimagined
Podcasts:
Gen-X Women
Forties Stories
The Shift
Grown A$$ women's guide
+1 I also liked Life Reimagined by Barbara Bradley Hagerty.
Fiction: The Change by Kirsten Miller
Anonymous
04/24/2023 20:47
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
New poster here. Which one was the one where the woman went to the beach for family vacation with her family, and then she decided to go for a walk . . . and then kept walking and walking? ( I won't say what happens after that or it would spoil the whole book if someone wanted to read it)
Anonymous
04/24/2023 20:36
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
Both are taken at the library. What's your third pick
The Accidental Tourist or Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anonymous
04/24/2023 20:02
Subject: Books for mid-life (crisis and not)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler. Nearly all her books are about women who want to leave home / having a mid-life crisis. Some run away and go back, some stay away. They are fabulously written and often set in atmospheric places.
Yes, this one and also Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Actually, read all of her books.
Both are taken at the library. What's your third pick
