GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope your week is starting off well. I am very excited for this week’s GoodReads Monday post. I just learned about this book last week, but it is by a favorite author, and it comes out tomorrow! I just might have to make a special trip to the bookstore this week to pick up a copy.

A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen

Publication Date: January 30, 2024

Summary from GoodReads:

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them.

Grieving her best friend’s recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career— after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator.

Except the strangest thing a man stops her…and claims they’ve met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she’s mourning, why she’s there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he’s saying.

Because time is about to loop.

In a flash of energy, it’s Monday morning. Again. Together, Mariana and Carter enter an inevitable life, four days at a time, over and over, without permanence except for what they share. With everything resetting—even bank accounts—joy comes in the little a delicious (and expensive) meal, a tennis match, giving a dog his favorite treat.

In some ways, those are all that matter.

But just as they figure out this new life, everything changes. Because Carter’s memories of the time loop are slowly disappearing. And their only chance at happiness is breaking out of the loop—forever.

I love a good time loop story and I am sure that Mike Chen will do this one justice. So far it has been getting fairly favorable reviews. I am so excited to get my hands on this one, and it will fit perfectly with at least one of my challenges this year.

Do you enjoy time loop stories? Is this one on your radar? Let me know in the comments.

Until next time…