{"id":23880,"date":"2026-03-03T04:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:59:13","slug":"book-12-of-52-the-book-of-lost-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/book-12-of-52-the-book-of-lost-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 12 (of 52) – The Book Of Lost Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Book of Lost Hours – Hayley Gelfuso<\/p><\/div>\n

As the Nazis rise to power in Germany leading up to World War II, a young girl is stranded in the time space, a vast library where the memories of the dead are bound into books.\u00a0 As she grows older, she finds soldiers from different countries entering the time space to destroy certain memories, changing the collective reality along the way.\u00a0 When she starts to interfere, she becomes a target, eventually getting pulled out and forced to work for the CIA in order to protect the man she loves and their secret child.<\/p>\n

The Book of Lost Hours<\/em>, the debut novel from Hayley Gelfuso, was a nominee for Favorite Science Fiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards and was a Good Morning America<\/em> book club pick.\u00a0 This was a fine debut from Gelfuso, who covers some of the same ground as Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library<\/em><\/a> while tackling the role that government, both ours and others, plays in shaping what we eventually come to think of as history.\u00a0 I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for whatever she comes up with next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Nazis rise to power in Germany leading up to World War II, a young girl is stranded in the time space, a vast library where the memories of the dead are bound into books.\u00a0 As she grows older, she finds soldiers from different countries entering the time space to destroy certain memories, changing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12366,9295,12365,9309,12364,9308],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-good-morning-america","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-hayley-gelfuso","tag-matt-haig","tag-the-book-of-lost-hours","tag-the-midnight-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23882,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions\/23882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}