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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Matt Haig
Genre : Fiction
This is the fourth book I’ve read recently about time travelers. The others include: The Invisible Life of Abbie LaRue (born in 1691) by V. C. Schwab; the two books by Gabrielle Meyer, When the Day Comes about Libby Conant, who is a time-crosser—living a day in 1774 and waking up the next morning in 1914, and In This Moment about Maggie, who lives in 1861 and 1941.
How to Stop Time is a story about Tom Hazard, who  is born March, 1581 and lives to the present day. He grows older much, much slower, and has to move frequently when people notice he is not aging. The chapters are short going back and forth in time. These are all inventive stories and I liked Matt Haig’s book in the beginning until the language became noticeably coarse, so readers be aware of this—thus the lower rating.
“I don’t know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren’t. But this is how I remember these things and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”
“I loved my daughter, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.”
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