Life After Life
3 journalers for this copy...
Found at Joseph Pearce's and brought home to register. I read this book back in 2014, so thought I'd include my thoughts from then:
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - Very Good
Kate Atkinson's first book, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Costa Book of the Year when it came out and now she's won it again in 2013 for this and I'm not suprised. This is definitely the best thing she has written since.
This is the story of the life, or lives, of Ursula Todd. Born in 1910, initially she doesn't make it: the cord is round her neck and she never breathes, but.... History, and her life, repeats itself: reboots, deja vu. The next birth she survives only to die during childhood and we start again.
Really, this is a book about options, choices, possibilities. Each time Ursula starts again, something guides her to make a different choice at the critical moment thereby traveling a different path,living a different life and dying a different death.
This sounds like it should be depressing, gruesome but, apart from one particular life which was more disturbing, it really isn't. She experiences different things, lives longer and longer until..... well it comes to us all doesn't it. The author's light and humourous touch saves the book from being maudlin and instead makes you think about your own choices and the glorious, haphazard beings that we are. We do not have a 'do over button', so make your choices wisely!
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - Very Good
Kate Atkinson's first book, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Costa Book of the Year when it came out and now she's won it again in 2013 for this and I'm not suprised. This is definitely the best thing she has written since.
This is the story of the life, or lives, of Ursula Todd. Born in 1910, initially she doesn't make it: the cord is round her neck and she never breathes, but.... History, and her life, repeats itself: reboots, deja vu. The next birth she survives only to die during childhood and we start again.
Really, this is a book about options, choices, possibilities. Each time Ursula starts again, something guides her to make a different choice at the critical moment thereby traveling a different path,living a different life and dying a different death.
This sounds like it should be depressing, gruesome but, apart from one particular life which was more disturbing, it really isn't. She experiences different things, lives longer and longer until..... well it comes to us all doesn't it. The author's light and humourous touch saves the book from being maudlin and instead makes you think about your own choices and the glorious, haphazard beings that we are. We do not have a 'do over button', so make your choices wisely!
Passing to Bookfrogster for a wishlist challenge
Thanks for this one. It will be travelling on very soon. :-)
A prize for International RABCK Sweeps
