I picked this up this afternoon as a cozy read during a snow day where work is cancelled and everyone is snowed in. How To Stop Time is about Tom, a man who had a medical condition that causes him to age incredibly slowly. He’s not immortal, this isn’t played off as sci-fi or fantasy. He will eventually age and die, but in the meantime he is 439 years old and appears to be 41. The story takes us back and forth between present […]
Though I Look Right at Home I Still Feel Like an Exile
Years before he took on the role of Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was in a short-lived FOX show called New Amsterdam. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible either; Coster-Waldau was easy on the eye and the show raised some interesting questions about the burdens of outliving those around you again and again. I had almost forgotten about that series until I started to read Matt Haig’s novel, How To Stop Time. The main character, Tom Hazard, is not immortal, but […]
I will solve you.
This is a melancholy little book about what it means to live almost forever. Think “Interview with a Vampire” without vampires. Tom Hazard, a man of many names and times, is over 400 years old. Tom is not immortal but ages VERY slowly. The explanation for this is some kind of genetic thing that kicks in at puberty, physically aging those with the gene around 10 years for every 100. The obvious things occur here: watching loved ones age and die, constantly moving and changing identities initially to avoid superstitious village […]
Alli Reviews “How to Stop Time”
I picked up this book while out and about shopping as I tend to have a bit of a book buying problem. Why is it a problem you may ask, you can never have too many books! Well, that is all well and good if you actually read them and aren’t just purchasing books that sit all sad and lonely on the shelf waiting to be read. I am hoping that being back on the CBR train will help me read all those books and […]