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A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil - Aug. 2023
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On order from State library.
Since it’s a KU title, I’ll renew my membership and give it a try.
I've read this story before but I am looking forward to reading it again. Annie’s story touched me surprisingly deeply, and I enjoyed every minute of it wondering what was happening and where it all will lead.
I started finally and wow! That’s so intense and heartbreaking. I’m really wondering where this story is going.
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It’s quite some time now I read a novel in one sitting and only was possible because I listened to the audio! It’s amazing and annoying and heartbreaking and just wonderful and …I struggled with the Eunice part (and the reason it’s 4.5* rating for me - unfortunately not possible to display it) and I hope to re-read it at a later point.
In the beginning I struggled with the pace of the narrator (much faster than the other KU books, though not fast enough listening at 0.75 speed would still make it bearable :-D
I’m so happy it wasn’t my first audio, as I doubt I’d manage it but now I’m glad for all the audiobooks I forced myself to in terms to improve my spoken language understanding - after about half an hour I didn’t need to follow the text to keep up with the story *yay!*
I’ll wait with all other comments until a few more people read it an will keep the copy on my Kindle until the end of this month.
Finally able to get to this one. It was good and very touching. The eventual end was a surprise. Great selection for the month.
I wasn't at all sure I would want to read this book, but I'm very glad I did. The twists and turns were nearly heartbreaking. Amazing ending!
I was very happy with the ending. I really wanted them to be a family together.
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After seeing ‘time travel’ between the main page genres I expect something very different and was not sure if I really wanted to read it. Luckily the KU ebook included an audio - which is my preferred version for books I’m very doubtful about.As soon as I got used to the pace of the narration I was mesmerized by the descriptions, especially the colors and smells (lilacs one among my favorite flowers, which was a huge bonus; yellow’s usually one of my least favorite colors, but the way Van Gogh used it is a big exception for me, so here was some appeal too). I loved Hannah’s chapters or those where the different realities interspersed and couldn’t wait to see what happens next. I loved the ending, somehow expected they find together but was surprised in the end by the turn they were able to stay in/keep the yellow house as well as the fact Annie found back to painting and was able to learn from the ‘mistakes’ of the alternate lives and what she learned about herself, her family and the people vital to them, especially Piper (I really loved her!)
I was surprised the ‘strange’ woman was Annie’s mother and not as I originally assumed she herself trying to fing her daughter (the time travel element).
I wished we learn the development in Annie’s other life, how the budding relationship and the hinted/possible life in London developed. Luckily the lack of this ending was such a minor disappointment I’ve seen no reason to let it flow into my final rating.
A question:
I’ve read about time slip/alternate history as a sub genre of science fiction/time travel but never could really understand what those are. Is this novel an alternate history or time slip or both of them?
Not sure how time slip is defined, but I’m not sure it would qualify as an alternate history. I think of alternate history as being more a what if kind of thing where some piece of history was altered causing a substantial shift in history. Like how would America look if the south won the civil war or Germany invaded England in WWII. Annie was actually going from one timeline/ history to another…To me this was more about a multiverse where timelines exist alongside each other.
Cindy (BKind2Books) wrote: "Not sure how time slip is defined, but I’m not sure it would qualify as an alternate history. I think of alternate history as being more a what if kind of thing where some piece of history was alte..."Thank you!
What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?
Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened.
Annie’s marriage is coming to an end. Now a successful artist living in Manhattan, she’s no longer home in their beloved upstate farmhouse. Her long-estranged sister is more like a best friend, and her recently deceased dog is alive and well. With each passing day, Annie’s remembered past and unfamiliar present begin to blur. Haunted by visions of Hannah, and with knowledge of things she can’t explain, Annie wonders…is everyone lying to her?
The search for answers leads Annie down an illuminating path far from home, to reconcile the memories with reality and to discover the truth about the life she’s living.