The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I am pegging this one down as my CBRbingo white whale for two reasons: 1) I have been starting and failing to read this book for years- a lot of people kept telling me how great it is, and how much they loved it, but up until recently, I just couldn’t get into it enough to get past the first 50 pages; and 2) it is so long- close to 600 pages- and so finishing it feels like a real accomplishment (especially because ‘white whale’ […]
Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier (editor)
Reader, we all know how we feel about Jane Eyre. We also know how we feel about that fateful sentence: Reader, I married him. This collection of 21 stories, created to celebrate Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday in 2016 and written by an all-female team of authors, all have strong feelings on the matter as well, and these stories run the gamut from the reverent to the satirical. This collection is a jewelry box in your grandmother’s attic full of treasure and cheap pieces alike, and […]
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
So though I thought the ending was quite good, I had some issues with certain aspects of this book. All in all I saw love as a dangerous thing to be in since it seems to not work out for anyone that is in “love” in this one. And the first part of the book takes a while to get going. It helps that Audrey Niffenegger takes the time to include headers that show the date and age of Henry and Clare so you can keep things […]
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I have never liked time travel. Episodes of science fiction TV that deal with it tend to give me a headache because I can’t wrap my mind around it and start thinking in circles. But I loved this book. It’s been around for a while and also had a movie based on it, but for those who don’t know, it’s about Henry and Clare. Henry is an involuntary time traveler; he has no control over where or when he travels, although it typically seems to […]
Henry meets his wife, Clare, for the first time when he is 28 and Clare is 20. Clare meets Henry when she is 6 and he is 36. Henry is a time traveler. He tells her and she believes him. He keeps coming back over the years and Clare grows older and falls in love with him. She finally finds him in his own present, a present where he doesn’t know her yet. Boy meets girl. Boy really likes to fuck girl. Boy proposes to […]
So, now that we’re into November and Christmas toys and decorations are proliferating the stores, I should probably start writing some reviews. I’ve never been this far behind, but I’m still hopeful I can pull off a Cannonball…we’ll see. I almost never re-read books, but my book club decided to read The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger. I had read it a long time before–at least ten years ago, probably more–and I decided I liked it enough that I should read it again. The Time […]
