Book Rec: Time & Again by Jack Finney
There are a small hand-full of books that have stuck with me ever since I read them several years ago. They're not new, not terribly popular, not anything you'll see on BookTok or Bookstagram. But they made an impression on me and have become some of my all-time feelgood favorites. The first one of this bunch is Time & Again by Jack Finney. It's got time travel and some romance. it was written in 1970 so it's definitely not contemporary to us but I think that's part of the appeal. Here's the official summary: When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his mundane 20th-century existence and step into the past. But he also has another motivation for going back in time: a half-burned letter that tells of a mysterious, tragic death and ominously of “fire which will destroy the whole world.” Traveling to New York City in January 1882 to investigate...