Showing posts with label rebirth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rebirth. Show all posts

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Life after Life

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, 529 pages.
Ursula is born in the winter of 1910 and promptly dies. She lives a little longer on her next go-round, starting on the same day, but it takes her several tries to get a really good streak going. It's a fascinating, well-written story, or series of stories.
Kathleen and Linda both had good things to say about this book, and that caused me to pick it up. I am glad that I did. This was also one of my favorites so far this year. Atkinson is really something special.
For fans of slip-stream fantasy (where things are just a little bit off), World War II era and English Historical fiction.

Some of the lessons we all learn along with Ursula:
There are very few paths to a life of uninterrupted happiness. You can never really please your mother. And several times: stay away from THAT guy.

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