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All of the reviews for this book were excellent and people keep talking about how amazing it is. Maybe I'm missing something, because I did NOT feel the same way. The concept intrigued me - the main character dying and getting to relive her life again and again. The actual book did not intrigue me. I felt it was dense and boring at times. The concept was also very vaguely developed and was sometimes hard to follow. There was a lot of development of Ursula's character and yet I never felt that I
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Quite enthralling. I am really fascinated by early 20th century England and this book plants me firmly back in that era. Can you imagine living life over and over until you get it right? Although by the end I am not sure if this is Ursula's last life or not, who knows, maybe she just lives life perpetually over and over again. I had to knock off a star because some things were left unanswered, such as why did she see her mom in Paris that one time and then it was never mentioned or alluded to ag
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I loved the concept of this book, that Ursula Todd lives her life over and over again, giving her opportunity to right the wrongs that eventually lead to her death each time. Early on, she has little control, as she dies at birth and as a young child, but as her awareness grows, she gets feelings of foreboding when she approaches the scenes of her previous deaths. Born in England in 1910, Ursula lives through both World Wars, plus the aftermath of each, and readers are taken along on the various
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2.5 stars. This book was an interesting idea and I can't wait to talk about it at book club. The things I didn't like about it: it was too long, too many character names to remember and I wanted more of an explanation as to why it was happening or satisfying ending. Things I liked: it was well written, the main character was easy to follow and the historical elements showed me a part of history I didn't know.
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Dec 07, 2013
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This is one of those books that raises more questions than it answers, though that's not a bad thing. Trying to puzzle it out leaves me thinking about it for much longer than if it had handed me the answers. I enjoy it when "literary" authors play with sci-fi-esque concepts, but sometimes it can get frustrating because more literary novels often don't really establish rules in the way that a pure sci fi novel would. I kept trying to apply an internal logic to Ursula's experience, but I finally h
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Just astonishing, and so beautifully written. I'll write more as I think about the book for the Goodreads discussion.
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