What Time Is It There? by Christine Potter
Just over a year ago, Bean and Zak headed for colleges two thousand miles apart, promising to write, but to see other people … until Bean fell for the wrong guy and Zak fell off the planet. Now, Bean’s got two weeks’ worth of Zak’s year-old letters that she still can’t bear to open—and a broken heart. Her new best friend, a guy named Amp, wants her to read the letters and be done with it, but he may have his own reasons for that. When Sam shows up at Bean’s school unexpectedly and Bean tumbles into the 19th century from the cellar of a ruined church, things start making a bizarre kind of sense. That is, if she can just fit all the pieces together again…let's see--there's a cult...and the Flying Singing Angel With No Feet...and of course, The Grateful Dead... Purchase Links: BAM | Chapters | Indies | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | TBD | iBooks | GOODREADS | 
Vickie's Reviews of Time Runs Away With Her & of What Time is it There?
Time Runs Away With Her - Christine Potter Quite a fun book to read. I liked all the reminders of the 70's. It was fun to think back to that time when I myself was a teenager. It's amazing how much you forget over the years. The characters were awesome in this story and were well-developed. It is easy to feel their emotions. I liked the closeness they share. It is a great thing to have close friends who are there for you in everything. The story flowed well from chapter to chapter. There was so much going on in the story that it was hard to put down. The cover of the book is perfect for the story as well as the title being a perfect fit. I would highly recommend this book to other readers who like romance and suspense and lots of excitement. I give this book a literary rating of 5/5 written by vickie What Time Is It There? - Christine Potter Again, as with the first two books in this series, this one is a fun book to read. I liked all the reminders of the 70's. It was fun to think back to that time when I myself was a teenager. It's amazing how much you forget over the years. Great memories of bands and music. The characters were awesome in this story and were well-developed. It is easy to feel their emotions. I loved getting to know the characters more with each book. They were dedicated to each other and were great friends. The story flowed well from chapter to chapter. There was so much going on in the story that it was hard to put down. Each of the three books had something big in the storyline and was fun to follow it to the end. The cover of the book is perfect for the story as well as the title being a perfect fit. I would highly recommend this book to other readers who like romance and suspense and lots of excitement. I give this book a literary rating of 5/5 written by vickie
OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES:
GUEST POST:
Of course, Bean Donohue, the main character, has the eyes I’m looking through in all three of the Bean Books: Time Runs Away With Her, In Her Own Time, and What Time Is It There? Set in the early 1970’s, the books are about what it’s like to be able to visit other times, but not quite be able to control how or when that happens. The triology is Bean’s story, and to some extent mine. No, I couldn’t time travel when I was a teenager, but I was a nerdy kid, and often wished I could. Like Bean, I played guitar and dulcimer, and like Bean, I got involved DJing the amazing music that was everywhere in the early 1970’s. But I didn’t have her pluck (or her patience with Joni Mitchell-esque open guitar tunings)! Like Bean, I loved love, and fell very hard for the guys I was involved with—and had solid, supportive relationships with my girlfriends. Like Bean, I had a brilliant mother who could come across as chilly and removed—but who did the right thing when it really mattered. But as much as What Time Is It There? is Bean’s book, it was very influenced by what was happening around me in the late summer of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. Yes, the book is set in 1972, but I was thinking very much about what had turned into the Me Too movement by the time the book went to press. I wanted to write what we’d call an ally today: a good man. In What Time Is It There? Bean is in college, and her best friend—not her boyfriend, although there’s a story there, too—is a guy named Amp. Amp is based on an old friend of mine from college days. He’s smart, a fellow rock and roll DJ, and obsessed with God—but not in a Jesus-freaky way. Since the book gets into some pretty dark and scary territory, Amp’s belief and his quest is necessary. Writing Amp’s story as well as Bean’s (and let’s not forget about Zak, her high school true love), was core to this book. Amp’s funny, smart, and twists the plot in some places I’d never have gone without him. When I write, I tend to create my characters first and let them talk to one another. When I started listening to what Amp was saying, I knew I had a book—and I knew it was going to make the point I wanted to make about being nineteen and learning to love, not just in the romantic way (although there’s plenty of that in the book). Because as Zak says—and it’s the motto of all three books—love really is the heaviest energy of all. 
ABOUT the AUTHOR:
Christine Potter is a writer and poet who lives in a very old (haunted) house on a creek in Rockland County. She has an organist/choirdirector husband (Ken) and two spoiled tom cats. One of the house's two ghosts lives in the room behind her office. Christine's newest book is a YA time travel novel, What Time Is It There? (The Bean Books, Book 3), newly released by Evernight Teen. The first book in the series is Time Runs Away With Her, and the second is In Her Own Time. Her two poetry collections are Zero Degrees at First Light (2006) and Sheltering in Place (2013). She has also had poems published in Rattle, Fugue, The Irish Examiner, HOOT, Eclectica, and The Pedestal, among other magazines. Her third book of poems, Unforgetting, is due out this spring from Kelsay Books. Website | Facebook | Goodreads 
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