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May 2020-Final Thoughts-**spoilers allowed**- A Lifetime of Impossible Days
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Apr 29, 2020 06:19PM
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A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
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Five stars from me too!
Yes, I read it a while back, but I remember loving it, and 5 stars from me as well.
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READ IT! I loved it!
I'll also add my name to the list of people who loved this book (though I must admit I had expected more whimsy, less heavy when I picked it up). A gorgeous book.
I have to admit to wondering at the beginning whether I could get into it as it was just a tad difficult initially to concentrate on the jump between characters and time lines as well as the two packages being delivered to different years. However, it wasn't too long before it had my full attention. A wonderful book.
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I really liked the three stages of life that she picked for the Willas (8, 33 and 93) and the ocean in the garden connecting them all. It was really well done.
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This is a gob-smackingly beautiful piece of work! I slurped up the last third of the book last night in one delicious hit (alongside my new T2 hot jam brownie tea with a bit of dark chocolate from Haighs, both of which I also highly recommend!) I agree with Carolyn that at the start I was a bit unsure about getting into this book but what a joy it turned out to be. I loved the idea of planting an ocean and how it became a way of brining the Willa's together. I love how the magical and reality are intertwined in this book. I thought this was a really original work and a beautiful way of dealing with very issues of childhood trauma, what it is like to experience such things and how it continues to impact someone long after the events have happened that carries it with deep understanding, respect and hope that healing can happen.I was somewhere in the middle of the book when I though that this is a writer that really knows about childhood trauma (and that being a field I work with all the time this is not a thought I often have reading fiction). Having read a little about the author I am not surprised that she wrote this while working through her own trauma. Actually I am more impressed as I would have thought to produce this she would have been further towards her own healing than she seems to have been at the time. But then I also think that just reflects one of the themes in this book, that stories have the power to heal!
My only quibbles with this book was how her father died. There was something with this scene that didn't quite work as well for me. But it's a small thing. My only other negative about this book would be that I worry about reading anything else by Ms Bird. I fear that she has set the bar so high the next wont be able to live up to the standard she has set. ( A good problem to have maybe?!)
I don't often give five stars to books (in fact I have given less than 50 in my whole reading history I have on GR - I checked!) but this I unhesitatingly and unstintingly give five stars! An absolute joy!
If you could visit your past (or future) self at any age and interact, what age would you choose? I’ve often found myself thinking about this since finishing A Lifetime of Impossible Days. I think I’d probably visit my miserable and directionless 14-year-old self and give some encouragement, or at least convey that things will come good with time.
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Thanks for your interesting and enthusiastic report/review Bron :) It was enjoyable to read your words..
