The Time of My Life

And if she chooses Henry, she has to first figure out how to get back from her past. The ending was rather surprising as well. See my full review and others here: Have you ever wondered "what if"? Have you ever looked at your life and all it's craziness and think back to a time in your past that you could go back to, and if you could, would you? What reality would you choose if you had the chance to do it all over again? Time of my life sets the story of a neglected suburban wife, who even though has a content life can't seem to find any real passion in her marriage, and while she has a beautiful daughter who she lives for, can't help but remember the freed Have you ever wondered "what if"?

Time of my life sets the story of a neglected suburban wife, who even though has a content life can't seem to find any real passion in her marriage, and while she has a beautiful daughter who she lives for, can't help but remember the freedom of carefree days of her single life from before. When Jill gets the news that her ex-boyfriend, the one that she'll always love, is getting married, Jill feels devastated, but doesn't know why. So what happens when she wakes one morning ready to get her child from her crib, but instead stumbles into her old apartment that she shared with Jack With knowledge at the ready, Jill is determined to change her former self and find the happiness that she let go, only, she isn't sure which reality she wants.

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I really enjoyed this book, it's different from what I normally read, but I guess I was always one of those people who wondered if I could change one thing in my past, would I? And even though the answer is always no, and I'm beyond happy and content with what I have and who I am, I found this question intriguing in a read and wanted to see how it would be played out. With an interesting plot line and likable characters this was a satisfying read. The ending was predictable, or maybe that's because I would have picked the same one.

All in all a fascinating story that really makes you think about the past, present, future and all the craziness you really want from your own reality. Jul 29, Robin Nicholas rated it really liked it. It isn't a masterpiece or particularly great writing Jillian is a something, affluent, stay-at-home mom, who does pilates, has massages, and drives a Range Rover, however, she is very unsatisfied with her life. She gave up a successful Manhattan advertising career and moved to the suburbs to raise her daughter. Her husband travels non-stop and she is lonely. She often wonders "what if". What if she hadn't given up her career?

What if she ha It isn't a masterpiece or particularly great writing One day she is transported BACK 7 years. She is given a chance at a "do-over" with the knowledge of what actually happened. What I really liked about it is the fact that little changes in how she reacts to a conversation or an idea does make a difference. The sticky relationship with the ex-boyfriends family COULD have been changed had she given here or there, or reacted differently. The exchanges with co-workers are different when she sees life from a more mature standpoint.

She moves through time again, in a slightly different way, while at the same time having "light-bulb" moments about her marriage in the "future". Jillian Westfield has been living a perfect life - at least according to the magazine articles that have been advising her. She has put so much pressure on herself to be the ideal wife and mother that she breaks under the stress of it all. In a kind of freaky accident-by-massage she finds herself living seven years earlier. Her same life, seven years earlier. The do-over of all do-overs!

She's back living with her boyfriend Jackson and on the fast track at work. She's reliving familiar situation Jillian Westfield has been living a perfect life - at least according to the magazine articles that have been advising her. She's reliving familiar situations and sees how she could have reacted differently the first time. Should she do things differently? If she does, it could change her life, that of her husband not Jack, by the way , her daughter, friends and relatives. Jillian needs to come to terms with a few things from her past. In doing so, will she make decisions that could change her future?

Or, will she take what she discovers and return to her real life? I enjoyed how things played out in this entertaining book. There's a lot of truth in it. Allison Winn Scotch's novel is charming and fresh. I found myself cheering Jillian on as she figured things out. Time Of My Life would be a great book club selection. Feb 17, Chris rated it did not like it.

I dislike contrived books and I dislike books that need to try to hard to tell you their message. I like a book that makes me think not just because its plot is thought provoking, but also because there is some degree of character development that is left open to interpertation. I guess the premise was something that made me think. But it is such an overused premise, that it was hard to feel like the story was novel. I feel a little bit like I wasted some time from my life read I dislike contrived books and I dislike books that need to try to hard to tell you their message.

I feel a little bit like I wasted some time from my life reading it. Nov 16, Christy rated it really liked it. I enjoyed the theme of the book because we all wonder "What if? Am I in the right place? That being said, the absurdity of how these things were accomplished kept me from absolutely loving this book. Nov 27, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: I liked this book more then I thought I would. It is interesting to see what would happen if you could go back and stay with someone and not have the life you have now.

In the end it works out the way it should. I would have liked more of an ending then what was given. I would have liked to have known what happened when she got back to the current time, more descriptive way then the pages I actually got. Nov 05, Nicole V rated it it was ok. Picked this up from a neighbor's giveaway pile for some light commute reading.

To give the benefit of the doubt, perhaps we are supposed to feel that way about the beginning because the character does go on to learn so Picked this up from a neighbor's giveaway pile for some light commute reading. To give the benefit of the doubt, perhaps we are supposed to feel that way about the beginning because the character does go on to learn some things and come to her senses by the end of the book.

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Jul 31, Patty rated it it was amazing Shelves: I just read this in about 3 hours. It was so good and reminded me somewhat of What Alice Forgot, only in an opposite way. It's tender and funny and exciting. Mar 03, C. Subasic rated it liked it Shelves: And oh, how sad it couldn't be that much smoother This novel is a voyage and return story, where Jill is magically sent back in time to see how life would turn out if she made different choices.

Jack is a writer with a novel in the works and a job at Esquire. He also has a Mommy Dearest mother from the high end of society and an upturned nose that likes to look down on those around her. Then there's the man she actually Oh, what fun! Then there's the man she actually married, the meticulous Henry. The spark has gone from their relationship.

Henry travels constantly and when together, they're too tired for romance. She gave up her career for this? And so with a magic wish and an intense massage, she finds herself waking to an apartment from her past, wondering where her daughter who hasn't been born yet is, hung over and late for a job she thought she'd left behind. How wonderful, to get a second chance. To experience the challenges of the relationship for a second time with the insights of maturity and hindsight.

Some of the changes she makes change the outcome of the world around her. In her past life, her friend Megan died in a car crash. In this version, this and other things have changed and keep changing. At the same time, this Alice in Wonderland adventure went the wrong way for me because it was hard to pin down the difference between her choices. Jack is supposed to be unambitious as he drags his heels about the novel he's writing. And yet he's well employed at Esquire magazine.

How is being a writer at Esquire not a great accomplishment, one that would take some hard work and ambition? Henry is a control freak, meticulous. And yet I never quite bought this version of him he has a bad habit of drinking orange juice out of the container. In both instances the writer tells us what these men are like and yet how they act doesn't match the story. So, what is she choosing between? What is the difference? There are stretches of the novel where the writer is trying too hard, throwing in too many details and extra ideas, where one strong one would have sufficed. Here's her description of her workstation: Post-it notes frame my computer screen, and tumbling stacks of paper cascade over one another and on top of pens, pencils, and stock photography, all of which neck their way close to my keyboard, which sits atop the only free space on my desk.

Josie delicately displaces two tote bags that are clogged with freebies from potential clients from the chair opposite my desk and sits. But almost on every page the reader is inundated with tumbling torrents of words. Then there are lengthy passages where she writes a letter to herself about how she meets Henry. Passive backstory that I eventually began to skip because of its irrelevance to the story. This was writer homework, some of which could have been used, but not all. And yet, there are stretches where the writer's words sing. Where she takes us deep into a moment and allows us to consider it.

The best writing happens in parts of the love story between her and the daughter she hasn't had yet, Katie. In one scene, she goes into a pharmacy, opens a bottle of the lotion she used to soothe across Katie's skin and smells it, just so she can feel her presence. How very poignant and telling a moment! In one sense, it is the love story of a mother, pining for the daughter she hasn't had yet, and yet has had.

It is this writing and the sheer fun of the concept that earn 3 stars. Two more stars would go on my review if the choice between Jack and Henry was more clear, and some of those over-wrought sections trimmed to their essentials. Those who like chick lit and women's fiction. This book has a very interesting premise — one that I think many of us may have pondered at some point in our lives. What would life have been like if you stayed with an ex?

What this book allows the reader to do is get a glimpse of a character who has that choice. Time of My Life tells the story of Jillian Westfield, a stay-at-home mom with a beautiful daughter, a magazine-perfect home, and a doting husband. But looks can be very deceiving. With her marriage crumbling This book has a very interesting premise — one that I think many of us may have pondered at some point in our lives. With her marriage crumbling, Jill begins to wonder what life would have been like had she stayed with her ex-boyfriend, Jack.

One day, after a relaxing massage, Jill wakes up to find herself seven years in the past. Now she will get a chance to change the course of her life — or will she? What if you could go into the past and make different decisions? What if those decisions affected the lives of everyone around you? Would you still make a different choice? With the gift of hindsight, Jillian jumps headfirst into her previous life, making different choices, with drastically different outcomes.

Each decision, big or small, has a rippling effect on the lives of everyone around her, including her boss, Josie, and her friend, Meg. Knowing what the future holds for them, Jillian tries to help her friends at important times in their lives. But, will her newfound attentiveness change their futures, too?

And what about Jack, the reason for this trip back in time? Well, suffice it to say that Jillian faces some different challenges in that relationship! I really enjoyed this book, but I felt that the ending was a bit rushed and I would have liked to have seen it fleshed out a bit more. I want to know how the supporting characters came to be where they were at the end.

I felt that I only got a glimpse and I can assume things that happened, but I really wanted the author to show me more. All in all, it was a compelling read that I enjoyed. This is a story of self-discovery and taking responsibility for our own happiness. It sends a positive, uplifting message. I would rate this book with a strong 4 out of 5 stars. May 17, Jessica rated it it was ok Recommends it for: I really liked the back-liner description of this book.

In fact, that is the reason that I picked it up and was exciting to read it. What potential this story had. But Winn Scotch absolutely lost me as a reader. First of all, the story was very predictable and familiar. There was FAR too much unnecessary language. And the main character, Jillian, was simply unlikeable and undesirable, and never redeem I really liked the back-liner description of this book. And the main character, Jillian, was simply unlikeable and undesirable, and never redeemed herself, even though the author tried as she might to make it seemed like she changed.

I never really bought it. I never really saw an actual and truthful change that truly effects the areas of someone's life. I never felt like she even had a smidgen of love for her husband or her 18 month old daughter. And you know, as a mother of an 18 month old daughter, that was the part that bothered me by far the most.

We all, as parents, have days and perhaps weeks or months where we are stressed out and do not enjoy parenthood, to the point of wishing we could go back to work or in whatever way leave this life behind us. However, the absolutely joy and to me much of the point of parenthood is that even in those days when we are stressed to the max and want to lock ourselves away in a room and never come out, there are still the moments when out child hugs us or smiles or tells us they love us, that makes the stressful moments worth it. And when she left her 18 month old daughter behind, she never seemed to care about it or miss those little moments.

Sure there were a couple of times that she was reminded of something special with her daughter, but not like a mother would be. This aspect was written so badly to me that I truly believed and was certain that the author, Alison Winn Scotch, did not have children. But to my surprise she has 2. This book makes feel a little sad of her children and her husband. Because even after she "changed", she still didn't seem to ache after them.

Mar 14, Sue rated it it was ok. My review will seem like I liked this book more than the 2 stars I gave it, because I did like almost all of it. But one really hard issue kept sticking in my throat while reading it, and I just couldn't get past it. This is a basic second-chance novel: The author gives us a chance to see the narrator ponder this, and realize what she is consciously and My review will seem like I liked this book more than the 2 stars I gave it, because I did like almost all of it.

The author gives us a chance to see the narrator ponder this, and realize what she is consciously and subconsciously doing differently to change things. She changes things thinking she wants to, and we tend to go along with this theory, although for the life of me I can't understand what was so horrible about her life that some communication and common sense couldn't have fixed.

But it's an enjoyable theory, after all, WE have nothing to lose by her doing this But that's the sticking point. She does have something to lose - the daughter that she and her husband created. When she realizes that she wants to fix the problems with her own boyfriend that caused them to split up before, she effectively writes off her little girl. And I wasn't OK with that. It bothered me to think that she had loved this person so much and then traded her for a relationship with someone else.

The fact that this didn't eat at her made the narrator much less sympathetic and I didn't want to invest my emotions in her. Not being emotionally tied to the main character and her plot made this an unsatisfying book.

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Nov 25, Nicole rated it it was ok. I just couldn't figure out what the main character hated about her life that she wanted a "do-over". I don't know any full-time moms who have a nanny so that they can run errands, the description of her husband made him seem like a nice enough guy, and she loved being with her toddler. She was even lucky enough to go to the gym to exercise and out with her girlfriends.

What's not to like? Unfortunately, the writer never fully explained.

Instead, the main character went back in time and stayed wi I just couldn't figure out what the main character hated about her life that she wanted a "do-over". Instead, the main character went back in time and stayed with the boyfriend she'd left before she met her husband. In her new life, she became what she thought her boyfriend wanted in order to make their relationship work. And then she was surprised when she resented him for it.

Oh, and along the way she came to the realization that the problems with their relationship and her relationship in the future with her husband weren't all the guy's fault, that she was as responsible as they were. So, of course, she gets to go Back to the Future hmm, hasn't this idea been done before? It was all neatly tied up in the end. I was annoyed with the main character stop whining already! The idea of this book was intriguing, but the book itself was just okay.

I don't recommend it. Aug 05, Kathy rated it liked it Recommends it for: Or will she choose her husband and suburban life all over again? This book was a light, quick read.

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