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About Time: 12 Short Stories | Jack Finney

Yay presents! Thank you @BarbaraTheBibliophage for sending me this book! YAY TIME TRAVEL STORIES! and WHAT A CUTE CARD!!! 😍❤️❤️

BarbaraTheBibliophage You‘re so welcome! I hope you enjoy the book. And I‘m so glad you like the card. My friend Nicole and I designed them, and she makes them for me. 👏🏻👏🏻♥️♥️📚📚 6y

abbielistenstobooks @BarbaraTheBibliophage ❤️❤️ 6y

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About Time: 12 Short Stories | Jack Finney

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I almost bailed after the second story, which was wildly chauvinistic. So glad I didn‘t because the rest were charming, thought-provoking stories that play with time and place in unique ways. All published in the mid to late 20th century, Finney‘s tales are evocative of that era and some earlier ones. It felt very nostalgic to me!

Full review www.TheBibliophage.com (who knew I had so many watches!)
#thebibliophage2018 #pop18 #timetravel

Velvetfur I love that photo! 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Velvetfur Thanks! It holds so many memories for me. 🙂 6y

TrishB Lovely pic 💕 6y

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erzascarletbookgasm Great pic 👍 6y

abbielistenstobooks I love time travel stories. I should check this out. Thanks! 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @abbielistenstobooks I‘d be happy to send you this copy. PM me your address and I‘ll drop it in the mail. 6y

abbielistenstobooks How kind! Will do! 6y

Louise Jack Finney is one of my favorite writers for time travel, escape, and fun! I‘ve collected all his books that I know about, even the obscure ones! Glad you enjoyed this one. 🤓 (edited) 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Louise I think I saw some reviews of his work that you‘d added here. He is a treasure! 6y

Louise He really is! I love his enthusiasm. He has influenced how I think about time and the wonder of being here in our own time in history. 6y

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About Time: 12 Short Stories | Jack Finney

I have a rebellion against the present, too! For entirely different reasons than this author. Argh.

This story was written in the mid-1950s. Before Vietnam, Watergate, JFK‘s assassination, and so many other things. Including the craziness of our time. And *they* wanted to go back in time?

#timetravel #escapistreading

AmyG Right? 6y

Clare-Dragonfly I wonder if it‘s true that people used to be happy to live in the present and didn‘t long for a simpler time. Memories of younger days often seem simpler (middle school is an exception). 6y

rwmg Sometimes the Golden Age is in the past, sometimes in the future. It never occurs to anyone that the Golden Age is now. 6y

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BarbaraTheBibliophage @rwmg Agreed. I try to be appreciative of today, despite its challenges. 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Clare-Dragonfly Haha. Yes, middle school is an exception! I think we often long for other times, or at least our faulty memory of them. 6y

Louise Finney has a wonderful passage in Forgotten News where he talks about the faces of people in the 1890‘s—faces of people for whom the Industrial Revolution was nothing but positive for humankind, who had never known a world war or an atomic (let alone nuclear) bomb, etc. He describes an innocent optimism in those faces, devoid of the jadedness and existential fear of modern people. Finney certainly looked at the past as a gentler, simpler time. (edited) 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Louise He must have been a time traveler himself! I‘ll have to look for

Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories

Louise Forgotten News is a non-fiction book, in which Finney indulges his fascination with news items from the past and how they were covered by the press back then. It‘s an interesting read. 6y

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About Time: 12 Short Stories | Jack Finney

My morning activity—for the moment. This is my pick for #pop18 #abouttimetravel. I have some personal history with his novel Time and Again (given to me decades ago by my g‘ma b4 she died), so I wanted to give these short stories a try. So far, they‘re just so-so. But the coffee is yummy and Litsy is distracting me!

#timetravel

jillrhudy Time and Again is one of my all-time favorite NYC books 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @jillrhudy I loved it on the first read. Then last year I reread it and didn‘t love it as much. (Happens to me with rereads...so I usually don‘t.) Sadly, these stories are so chauvinistic that I‘m a little bit 🤢. 6y

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Louise

About Time: 12 Short Stories | Jack Finney

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Jack Finney is one of my favorite authors. His enthusiasm for the adventure of traveling in time and experiencing history up close makes his books a joy to read. He plays with possibilities, with parallel realities, and with shifts in perception. This collection of #shortstories is great fun! #somethingforseptember

Laura317 Adding this! I'm a time travel junkie. 8y

Louise @Laura317 You would love Jack Finney's novels, then! Try Time and Again and From Time to Time! Also Three By Finney! 8y

Laura317 I will! Thanks! @Louise 8y

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Louise I look forward to hearing how you like them, @Laura317! 👍🌟 8y

bookwrm526 Yes, love love love Time and Again 8y

Louise @bookworm526 👍🌟👍🌟💛!!! 8y

Louise That was meant for @bookwrm526! 8y

ApoptyGina69 I just bought a second copy of Time and Again in hardcover. I didn't know about short stories. Thanks for the post! 🤗 8y

Louise @ApoptyGina69 Always happy to let people know about Jack Finney's work! Enjoy the stories! His novellas in 3 By Finney are also great fun! 🤓 8y

Faibka Oooh I must check it out! 😃 8y

Louise @faibke You'll love his work! He's great fun! 👍 8y

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