How to Stop Time

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Haig, Matt	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Haig, Matt	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Haig, Matt	4-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Haig, Matt	4-week checkout	Due 04-21-2024

Tom Hazard has a dangerous 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, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects 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 derail 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. How to Stop Time is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

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Very enjoyable submitted by mandevil on June 20, 2018, 6:35am My first tead of this author. Very interesting style. Will definately try his other books.

Couldn't finish submitted by smgop on July 8, 2020, 8:39pm I was intrigued by the premise of this book, but it turned me off not too far in and I just had to return it - too many other good books to read.

It's ok I guess submitted by sumsaylor on July 17, 2022, 12:04pm Meh. A cool idea that is underwhelming thanks to a weak prose style and too-cute, rom-com, middling execution. Writing is very poor at times and the climax feels rushed and a little silly. Still, a decent summer read if your expectations are low.

Another take on time travel submitted by JJM.Deucher on July 20, 2023, 7:17am My 2nd Matt Haig book. Not as strong as midnight library, but still an interesting Mashup of fantasy and historical fiction.