{"id":2395,"date":"2014-04-18T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:31:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:31:33","slug":"replay-by-ken-grimwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Replay by Ken Grimwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2426 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Replay5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wished for a do-over?\u00a0 Or wanted to relive your life with the benefit of hindsight? \u00a0In <em>Replay<\/em>, Jeff Winston gets the chance to do just that. \u00a0At age 43, he drops dead of a heart attack. \u00a0An instant later, he wakes up his 18-year-old self, with the knowledge and memories\u00a0of his 43-year-old self.<\/p>\n<p>He gets the chance to live his life over, making different decisions, changing the course of his life trajectory. \u00a0Everything is going great for Jeff, until he reaches age 43 and dies again, and then once again wakes up in his 18-year-old body, with the knowledge of both lives he&#8217;s relived.<\/p>\n<p>I found this book to be well written and enjoyable to read. \u00a0The characters were well developed, and the premise is great.\u00a0 I enjoyed this book and would love to read more with a similar premise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wished for a do-over?\u00a0 Or wanted to relive your life with the benefit of hindsight? \u00a0In Replay, Jeff Winston gets the chance to do just that. \u00a0At age 43, he drops dead of a heart attack. \u00a0An instant later, he wakes up his 18-year-old self, with the knowledge and memories\u00a0of his 43-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replay by Ken Grimwood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-selena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}