An alternative title for this novel could have easily been “Sightseeing and Things to Do in New York When You Are Travelling to the Past While Patiently and Leisurely Waiting to Change the Course of History” (but, for some reason, I don’t think that one would have stuck). I consider Jack Finney’s opening novel to this two-part series, Time and Again, to easily be one of my favorite reads from the past few years. It captured the wonder, enchantment, and magic of being transported to the past with...

This is a reread. As best as I can recall, I first read this book in the mid to late 1990s. One sentence from the book got stuck in my head. More precisely, I should probably say my personal revision of that sentence got stuck in my brain, as I didn't accurately remember the sentence word for word or even thought for thought. I do choose to believe that I did remember the gist. The sentence was: "We [i.e., Simon and Julia] sat against the dark carved wood of the great bedstead, snug under a thic...

__________________________ 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 read and loved Time and Again and discussing this one recently on GR I decided it was time to read it. You need a lot of patience reading this book. It's very detailed. The descriptions are fantastic and this is what the book is, a descriptive novel. I've never visited New York and never will but Finney took me down old New York streets and I could see everything and almost smell the air. He's wonderful at drawing you in to the book and there lies the rub, there really isn't much of a sto...

A very disappointing sequel--gone was the charm of Time and Again. You get the impression Finney was pressured by his publisher to write a sequel twenty-five years later but had no idea where to go with it. I liked Si a lot less too, with his relentless search for 'Tessie and Ted' and the very dull chapter on vaudeville that seemed like mere filler.

Ah, the good old days without all that nasty feminism. Of course it's better to live a hundred years ago, when there wasn't pollution except from all the fires and the horse poop, and when pregnancy was quite likely to kill the girl of your dreams, if some other disease for which she's never been vaccinated doesn't.

Pleh.

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. What I found in this book is the same wonderful detailed descriptive writing and that I was lured into another time in New York City. 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 1990’s from the time and place he has made home for the last four y...

While it is clear, at least to me, that the characters wrote the book Time and Again, sadly, the sequel did not 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 Jack himself that loved the time period and wanted...

Unfortunately, this sequel cannot compare to Time and Again. While I whipped right through the 1st third of the book, the storyline quite suddenly loses its focus giving detailed descriptions of the vaudeville era which have nothing to do with the plot. The end does pick up a bit, but I must admit to being disappointed so little time was spent on the Titanic. There are some great old black and white photo's of the early 1900's as you read along, and I love the time travel aspect of the book, but...

From Time to Time is an uneven and disappointing sequel to the tremendous novel Time and Again. As a book, it isn't awful, but in comparison it is an outright flop because it never really delivers on its promises. Simon Morley is a time traveler. He worked on a secret government project in modern times (which in the first novel was the 1970s) which experimented with time travel, and Simon was successful in traveling to the late 1800s. He met a woman and decided to stay there, so we find Simon wi...