This novel could easily have been titled “Sightseeing and Things to Do in New York When You Are Traveling to the Past While Patiently and Leisurely Waiting to Change the Course of History” (though I doubt that title would have caught on). I consider Jack Finney’s first book in this two-part series, Time and Again, to be one of my absolute favorite reads of the last few years. It perfectly captured the wonder, enchantment, and magic of being transported to the past alongside Simon (Si) Morley. I ...

This is a reread. If I remember correctly, I first read "From Time to Time" by Jack Finney in the mid to late 1990s. One sentence from the book has always stuck with me. Or, to be more precise, my personal interpretation of that sentence stuck in my brain, as I didn't accurately remember the sentence word for word, or even thought for thought. I do believe that I remembered the gist. The sentence was: "We [i.e., Simon and Julia] sat against the dark carved wood of the great bedstead, snug under ...

__________________________ NEW REVIEW“As Einstein himself pointed out. …we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.” — From Time to TimeNow, I can’t argue with Einstein--that guy makes great bagels--but I find it hard to believe that time exists in tiny nanosecond slices that came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang and each moment still exists...

Having adored *Time and Again* and recently discussing *From Time to Time* on Goodreads, I figured it was time to finally read it. Be warned: this book requires patience. It's incredibly detailed. The descriptions are fantastic; in fact, this is primarily a descriptive novel. I've never been to New York, and likely never will, but Finney transported me down the old New York streets. I could vividly see everything and almost smell the air. He's brilliant at drawing you into the book, but therein ...

A seriously disappointing sequel—all the charm of *Time and Again* is gone. You get the feeling Jack Finney was pressured by his publisher to write a sequel twenty-five years later but had absolutely no idea where to take the story. I liked Si a lot less, too, with his relentless search for 'Tessie and Ted' and that incredibly dull chapter on vaudeville that felt like pure filler. If you're looking for captivating time travel books, skip *From Time to Time*.

Ah, the good old days, before all that pesky feminism. Of course it's better to live a hundred years ago, when there wasn't pollution except for all the fires and the horse poop, and when pregnancy was quite likely to kill the girl of your dreams, if some other disease she's never been vaccinated for doesn't get her first.

Pleh. If you're looking for historical fiction book reviews, maybe skip Jack Finney's "From Time to Time."

I was a little apprehensive about reading this sequel to *Time and Again* because I loved the way that book ended, and I didn’t want anything to change for Si Morley. But what I found in *From Time to Time* is the same wonderful, detailed, descriptive writing that lured me into another time in New York City. Jack Finney definitely had a way of making you see exactly what Si was seeing and what he was feeling. Si returns to his present day in the 1990s from the time and place he's made home for ...

While it's clear, at least to me, that the characters wrote *Time and Again*, sadly, the sequel *From Time to Time* didn't live up to the magic and wonder of the first book. The good news is that this was a relatively short book, and it fulfilled not only the monthly tag, it gave me a chance to read a sequel to a book I enjoyed a lot. Now the bad news. I'm not sure if it was Jack Finney's editor who had the idea to put out a sequel twenty-five years later, or if Jack himself loved the time peri...

Unfortunately, this sequel just doesn't measure up to Time and Again. I breezed through the first third, but then the storyline abruptly loses its way, getting bogged down in overly detailed descriptions of the vaudeville era that really have nothing to do with the plot. The ending picks up a little, but I was honestly disappointed that so little time was actually spent on the Titanic. There are some cool old black and white photos from the early 1900s sprinkled throughout, and I still love the ...

From Time to Time is a patchy and disappointing sequel to the brilliant novel Time and Again. As a standalone book, it’s not terrible, but compared to its predecessor, it's a complete letdown because it never truly lives up to its potential. Simon Morley is a time traveler. He worked on a top-secret government project in modern times (which, in the first novel, was the 1970s) experimenting with time travel. Simon successfully journeyed to the late 1800s. He met a woman and decided to stay, so w...