The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
9 out of 10
I couldn't give it 9 out of 10, because I had to make myself keep reading up to page 100, wondering what the point was.
A stupid thing to wonder, really. I think this may be one of the great love stories. How did the author have the imagination to conceptualise this? Wow! I haven't seen the film, and I don't think I'd better do, because I don't want my sense of the book spoiled. What a relationship these 2 people have!
There is a link between this and the 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' in that they are both about 21st century living, from the perspective of thirty-somethings. They are both about relationships.
Even better - there is a very clear link between the 'Time Traveler's Wife' and my experience of publishing my teenage diary on this blog. That whole feeling of being me now, looking back, objectively and subjectively, at me then, and recognising myself as being a different being, yet the same being. I wonder if I ever, as a teenager, foresaw that I would be read by me at 53. And if I did, what did I think the older me would be like? I could go on in this vein for ever - so I'll stop! (But thanks to Angela Hook for sharing thoughts about diary-publishing).
I'm going to read 'The Road' next. Paul gave it 10 out of 10. But I suspect it will depressing, so I've been putting it off.
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