The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – 528 pages
Book Blurb:
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger’s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel’s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.
My Review: 4.5 stars
The Time Traveler’s Wife was a wonderful love story at heart and explored time travel in a way that was utterly believable. The author does an amazing job of taking us to different times, which could be confusing, but it wasn’t. This was an easy read as we travel with Henry, trapped within the confines of time.
This book makes for a great discussion book and bonus to watch the movie as well.
Quotes I liked:
Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can’t own it; you can use it. You can spend it. But you can’t keep it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”
