Book: How To Stop Time
Author: Matt Haig
Pages: 336
This is my 132nd read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerout secret. He may look like an ordinary 41 year old but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history - performing with Shakespeare, exporing the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now he just wants an ordinary life. Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protect people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to erail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. It tells a love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.
This was a pretty good book. I like Matt Haig's books and this one did not disappoint. I liked the main character and the idea of someone who could live for about 1000 years and what that would look like. It was a neat idea that they aged one year old every 15 years and that started around age 11 (which was a good idea on Haig's part because I don't think anyone would want to do the baby stage for 15 years). There are a lot of good characters, and the story moves along at a good pace, and it has a good ending.
Stars: 4
