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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
2 reviews
kelly_e's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Title: No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Author: Michael J. Fox
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 4.00
Pub Date: November 17, 2020
T H R E E • W O R D S
Inspiring • Unselfish • Intimate
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Diagnosed at age 29, Michael has been raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science.
In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I know Michael J. Fox from his time on Spin City, but especially for all the work he has done advocating for Parkinson's Disease, which made me particularly interested in picking up his latest memoir No Time Like the Future.
And this is vintage Michael J. Fox! Written with his signature wit and optimism, it's a glimpse into his thoughts and feelings on a wide array of topics including his dog, his family, his career, and his health. Written with great emotion, it felt like a love letter to his family and life from someone staring down his own mortality.
The writing style does take some getting accustomed to, as it jumps from one place to the next without much warning. Yet at the end of the day, this book has something to offer everyone. It's a reflection on life, love and loss.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• celebrity memoirs lovers
• Michael J. Fox fans
• readers who like stories of resilience and hope
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame. I don’t attempt to erase it, only to accept it."
"Good things can come from bad things."
Author: Michael J. Fox
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 4.00
Pub Date: November 17, 2020
T H R E E • W O R D S
Inspiring • Unselfish • Intimate
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Diagnosed at age 29, Michael has been raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science.
In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I know Michael J. Fox from his time on Spin City, but especially for all the work he has done advocating for Parkinson's Disease, which made me particularly interested in picking up his latest memoir No Time Like the Future.
And this is vintage Michael J. Fox! Written with his signature wit and optimism, it's a glimpse into his thoughts and feelings on a wide array of topics including his dog, his family, his career, and his health. Written with great emotion, it felt like a love letter to his family and life from someone staring down his own mortality.
The writing style does take some getting accustomed to, as it jumps from one place to the next without much warning. Yet at the end of the day, this book has something to offer everyone. It's a reflection on life, love and loss.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• celebrity memoirs lovers
• Michael J. Fox fans
• readers who like stories of resilience and hope
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame. I don’t attempt to erase it, only to accept it."
"Good things can come from bad things."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
Minor: Death and Death of parent
marylinaris's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
“No Time Like the Future” was the first Autobiography/Memoir I’ve ever read, it just was never a genre I felt any interest in. Somehow though the marketing of this particular book got to me and now I finally ended up reading it. I started this last year, in line to get my second Covid shot, and put away quite quickly and a little scandalized. Again, this was my first Memoir, and I felt like I was prying into someone’s private life and thoughts were I had no business to be, a hurdle I got over fast when I picked it up again this month.
Now to the book itself. The storytelling jumped from one event to another, from one year to a decade before to two month later - it should be confusing but Fox managed to tie all these experiences together, finding the invisible string throughout his life and ties all these different experiences together to one thoughtful conclusion.
I really enjoyed the tone he brought to the book, reflective and fun at the same time. The book also made me tear up a lot, especially when he speaks about his wife, his love for her is just dripping off the pages.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Medical content, and Death of parent