And there have been so many experiences for Jeff to live through… But maybe it’s not about finding answers…maybe it’s about what you learn from living through it. It’s a long, lonely existence, always questioning why and never receiving any answers, when he finally, finally meets another replayer…but the answers don’t come easily there, either. Except he dies again, at 43, and wakes up- again!- to find himself still in college.Ĭaught in an endless loop of repeating his life, Jeff takes multiple paths and explores options he never had the first time around, living lives funded by the invested money he earns by placing bets on remembered outcomes for various sports matches. He can live his life over, make different and better choices, do things right this time.

A young body, a young life, everything in front of him. Except when he wakes up- wakes up?- he’s 18 again and in college. His chest is exploding with pain- obviously something with his heart- and everything fades to black. But Sunday morning was when I downloaded a library ebook of Replay to my kindle…and Sunday evening was when I finished it. Not usually mine- I work hard on keeping mine to a manageable number during non-pandemic times when the libraries are open- but sometimes you just don’t get to things in a timely manner. Because sometimes TBRs are where books go to die. I immediately slapped that book on my TBR after noting happily that my library owned a copy of it…and then it sat there.

(I’m not much into sci-fi stuff- no space-opera-type novels for me, thanks- but falling back in time? NEAT!). Last year, via an email conversation, Nick Clausen, author of They Come At Night, suggested that I read Replay by Ken Grimwood (William Morrow Paperbacks, 1998), after learning that I liked books about time travel.

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