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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Romance, almost Sci-fi
Summary: On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is or what he is doing. It drops him naked and vulnerable into another decade, wearing an age-appropriate face. In fact, it's not unusual for Henry to run into the other Henry and help him out of a jam. Sound unusual? Imagine Clare Detamble's astonishment at seeing Henry dropped stark naked into her parents' meadow when she was only six. Though, of course, until she came of age, Henry was always the perfect gentleman and gave young Clare nothing but his friendship as he dropped in and out of her life. It's no wonder that the film rights to this hip and urban love story have been acquired. Elsa Gaztambide
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
My two cents: Total tearjerker. It's very romantic to the point of being a cliché chick flick. Yet, I can't find any book that is as beautiful (my lack of literature education aside *coughs*). The only thing bad I have to say about this book is perhaps the fact that it's sometimes confusing because of the narration is jumbled up due to 'time traveling' and it was slightly annoying having to flick back and forward between time periods to get the whole view of the two sides of the story. But then it occurred to me, that's the whole point-- someone knows little of what's going on (Clare) and someone knows everything (Henry), and as a reader you think you get the whole picture but you don't coz you always find more fine details to fill in the gaps between Clare and Henry's account as you read on. Does that even make sense? Anyway. I'm still too emotional to think logically. The end is too freaking powerful and happy and sad and everything. Oh deary me... I'm definitely not the one to read these type of cheesy romance... *buries face in a box of Kleenex*
Just read it. And let's all go and watch the movie together coz geez i cried watching the trailer 2 seconds ago
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Romance, almost Sci-fi
Summary: On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is or what he is doing. It drops him naked and vulnerable into another decade, wearing an age-appropriate face. In fact, it's not unusual for Henry to run into the other Henry and help him out of a jam. Sound unusual? Imagine Clare Detamble's astonishment at seeing Henry dropped stark naked into her parents' meadow when she was only six. Though, of course, until she came of age, Henry was always the perfect gentleman and gave young Clare nothing but his friendship as he dropped in and out of her life. It's no wonder that the film rights to this hip and urban love story have been acquired. Elsa Gaztambide
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
My two cents: Total tearjerker. It's very romantic to the point of being a cliché chick flick. Yet, I can't find any book that is as beautiful (my lack of literature education aside *coughs*). The only thing bad I have to say about this book is perhaps the fact that it's sometimes confusing because of the narration is jumbled up due to 'time traveling' and it was slightly annoying having to flick back and forward between time periods to get the whole view of the two sides of the story. But then it occurred to me, that's the whole point-- someone knows little of what's going on (Clare) and someone knows everything (Henry), and as a reader you think you get the whole picture but you don't coz you always find more fine details to fill in the gaps between Clare and Henry's account as you read on. Does that even make sense? Anyway. I'm still too emotional to think logically. The end is too freaking powerful and happy and sad and everything. Oh deary me... I'm definitely not the one to read these type of cheesy romance... *buries face in a box of Kleenex*
Just read it. And let's all go and watch the movie together coz geez i cried watching the trailer 2 seconds ago