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No, I didn’t reread Timely Persuasion<\/a> <\/em>again. \u00c2\u00a0The above bullets also describe Expiration Date<\/a><\/em> by Duane Swierczynski. \u00c2\u00a0But the similarities are both striking and amusing. \u00c2\u00a0Not sure whether I should chalk it up to great minds thinking alike, 100% coincidence or something in between. \u00c2\u00a0This quote from the book summed up my opinion and made me laugh out loud:<\/p>\n “Two<\/em> events could be a coincidence. \u00c2\u00a0Not all of this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apophenia aside, the two stories are very different beyond the areas where music & time travel particulars intersect. \u00c2\u00a0Expiration Date<\/em> plays out as a fast paced hardboiled detective novel bouncing back and forth between the 1970s and the present, with cliffhangers at the end of most chapters that leave you longing for more. \u00c2\u00a0I absolutely devoured it, being sucked into the “just one more chapter before bed” trap that hasn’t happened in a long time. \u00c2\u00a0Best book I’ve read in ages, with an ending that was both satisfying and clever.<\/p>\n Highly recommended, even if TP did nothing to inspire it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just finished reading an awesome novel featuring: A recently unemployed journalist who goes back in time A musician father in the past Time travel that works by just thinking hard about a specific date An inability to visit the same date twice Being ghost-like and invisible to most people while back in time Always traveling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-debris","category-time-travel","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-gg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1421,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/more-red-letter-dates\/","url_meta":{"origin":1008,"position":0},"title":"More Red Letter Dates","author":"LBDG","date":"November 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The most famous red letter date in the history of time travel is November 5, 1955 from Back to the Future. 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