Review: How to Stop Time

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Though not classically a time traveling story, this book falls into that category. The protagonist has a condition that ages him only a year or so every decade. So he appears to be in his 30's but is actually 400 years old. While the book delights in regaling the reader with his exploits in history - a part in one of Shakepeare's debuts, for example, and a voyage with Captain Cook - it is his current life that is most compelling. He struggles with falling in love, both drawn to a colleague at a school where he is a teacher (history, of course), and cautioned against such relationships by the leader of "The Albatross Society," who has assembled and protects people with this condition.

I found the historical chapters tedious, but enjoyed the narrative of the present day.

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