Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) in SpecFic Buddy Reads

Dec 21, 2020 Emma rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction

The verb to describe my reading of this book is ‘limp’ as in ‘I limped through it’. This was not my first go round with this book- for some reason I’ve always felt that I should like it, and would like it if I only persevered. Well I did persevere and I still don’t like it. It should tick all my boxes:historical fiction✔️reincarnation✔️ philosophy ✔️ metaphysics✔️but sadly it is still just a damp squib (whatever that actually means!)

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Dec 05, 2018 Lata rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-f-h, auth-f, x2018-read

Wonderful! Ursula Todd relives her life several times, with little things changing each time, based on decisions she makes. With each new iteration of her life, we see a slightly different Ursula Todd, as well as getting a better picture of the rest of her family. Though this story has a fantasy aspect in the use of repeated lives, this was also a terrific historical story, taking England from just before WWI to the late sixties, at certain critical junctures in Ursula's life. (I found the secti ...more

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Oct 24, 2013 Robyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2014

This is one of those books with a gimmick, and for once the gimmick is genuinely fascinating. The idea of being able to live your life over and over - to correct the decisions leading to early death - is a compelling one, and Atkinson places her heroine Ursula front and centre in the massive drama of WWI & WWII era Britain (and occasionally Germany). I didn't mind the repetition, and especially loved the slow unfolding of all of Ursula's birth story as Atkinson explored the twists and turns a yo ...more

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