Recursion by Blake Crouch schedule. May 3rd Book Two

 Helena pg 101

Holy crap I was right.

Slade is from the future.  There was an accident when someone died in the tank and he figured out it was time travel.  Then he commited suicide in the tank with the chair on and made it back ro when he was in his 20s and did all this.

Barry pg 109

Barry is overwhelmed by all this.  He feels like he should just be overjoyed, but he's super worried that this isn't real.  Or even worse, that it is real but somehow Slade will see what he's doing and disapprove and take it away.

Helena 114

Slade tried to send Reed (the addict they're experimenting on) back to a memory from another timeline and it didn't work.  He just died.  So he sent himself back to stop Reed from doing the experiment.   When it catches up to them, Reed says he remembers dying and it was beautiful. He recalled a childhood memory that was awesome and he could have stayed in it forever.  He says they should have left him dead so he could.

Barry 119

He loves this life sooooo much.  He periodically finds himself overcome with emotion.

Helena pg 120 2009 July 5th

Reed enjoyed the experience of dying so much that he hangs himself. 

Slade says he's gonna time travel back and save him.  Helena says he made the choice to kill himself and he should let it be.  She suddenly realizes that she wants to escape and can't cause even if she did, Slade would go back in time and stop her.

Barry 122

Barry is better at life than last time.  Some because he remembers stuff from his previous life.   But mostly cause he cares a lot more.

Helena 124 2007 October 22nd

She goes back in time to escape Slade.

The memory is when jee-woon comes and offers her all of Slade's money to continue her research. She says yes.  I'm real curious to see where this is going.

Barry 126 2008 January - May

Barry just living his life.

Helena pg 127 2007 Oct- 2010 August

Even though she said yes to Jee-Woon, she didn't mean it.  She cashes out her savings and goes on the run.  The last sad thing she does in this chapter is goes to see her mom.  There's one moment of clarity but then she's back to being fully stricken with altzheimers. 

Barry pg 135 2010 June- 2018 November 

I don't care for the inconsistent chapter lengths. We got 1 page chapters and then this 22 page whopper.  Barry has a good second life.  His daughter graduates from college and he's so proud and he loves her so much.  He and his wife get a divorce. It's amicable and Barry realizes that in his previous life he blamed his divorce on his daughters death.  Now he realizes it wasn't meant to last.  Maybe in his next life they'll get divorced even earlier and be even happier. 

Then they get to the fateful day when he went back.  Everyone remembers his previous life.  His daughter commits suicide cause she can't get over the memory of her death.

Barry should have been prepared for this.  He should have had a plan to tell his daughter and wife.  But now he's divorced with a dead daughter again.  What a piece of shit.

Barry finds his way back to the memory building and he's real tempted to break in and go on a killing spree.  Then he has a better idea, he's gonna call Gwen and have her bring the while NYPD down on these Mother Fulkersons. But then he hears a lady tell him not to make that phone call.  It's Helena. 

Really looking forward to book 3.  I gotta remember to go to the library and pick up guardians of the galaxy.