December 6, 2016 / Leslie

First Chapter First Paragraph ~ Tuesday Intros

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

Dutton | February 2017 | Hardcover • Kindle | 384 pages

1st Paragraphs:

So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have. That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have. But it never should’ve turned out like this. And it’s all my fault—well,me and to a lesser extent my father and, yeah, I guess a little bit Penelope.

It’s hard to know how to start telling this story. But, okay, you know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we’d have? Flying cars, robot maids, food pills, teleportation, jet packs, moving sidewalks, ray guns, hover boards, space acations, and moon bases. All that dazzling, transformative technology our grandparents were certain was right around the corner. The stuff of world’s fairs and pulp science-fiction magazines with titles like Fantastic Future Tales and The Amazing World of Tomorrow. Can you picture it?

Well, it happened.

What do you think? Would you keep reading?

I’ve been in a bit of a reading/blogging slump the past few months, so perhaps choosing something from one of my favorite genres–time travel–would get me out of it.

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From Goodreads:

All Our Wrong Todays is about the versions of ourselves that we shed and grow into over time. It is a story of friendship and family, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths, and of love in its multitude of forms. Filled with humor and heart, and saturated with insight and intelligence and a mind-bending talent for invention, this novel signals the arrival of a major talent.

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Source: Review copy from the publisher.
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