Thursday, March 25, 2010

Blog Book Review of The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife is a book I thoroughly enjoyed. I read a review entitled "Timeless Love" written by W.R. Greer. I completely agreed with everything the author said. One interesting point that the author did bring up was his or her criticism of the book. The fact that the author has criticism of the book doesn't surprise me, it's the part of the book he or she is critical of. Greer says
"My only complaint is that, whether a realistic depiction or not, love in this novel is something from which recovery never seems to happen."
What Greer means is that the love in this book is so incredibly powerful that it's impossible to recover from. While reading this book, I never stopped to think about this evaluation of the book. I was so immersed in loving the book and everything about it I never stepped back to think of some sort of criticism about any general theme within the book--such as the reoccuring love. Another thing I really loved about this review was that the author uses the best possible descriptions for the book and how Audrey Niffenegger, the author, wrote it. Such as this one quote,
"Ms. Niffenegger does an admirable job portraying their life together, and exploring a love built over a lifetime that courses deep through both of them."
Greer is extremely respectful towards Niffenegger and gives her the respect she really does deserve because the book is like some extremely difficult quilt that is so intricately sewn together that no one else would ever be able to remake something even close to similar. I'm not one to really read book reviews, but the review I just read was very well written.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I started reading The Time Traveler's Wife a few weeks ago after I watched the movie at a hotel in Florida. The book is absolutely amazing. It's a bit mature for some audiences but I love it. I finished Handle with Care around two weeks ago during a blackout that made it near impossible for me to do anything but read next to a candle--sort of a fire hazard, but I was careful! Handle with Care had a good ending, it was actually very surprising and heartfelt. Most of Picoult's novels are extremely similar but I was happier with this novel as opposed to others. More about The Time Traveler's Wife...the book is amazing so far. It's a little confusing but after you get past the whole time traveling debocle, it's a very fast paced novel that jumps from time to time. It's not an easy read because of this jumping back and forth from plots and places and not to mention people but it's still a great read. I've found myself in the past few days being bored and instead of turning the tv on to watch some menial tv I open up my book and read for an hour or two which is new for me--television is usually my go-to when coping with boredom. I'm probably going to go read right now even though a couple of hours ago I was just reading for an hour...

I guess the spring brings new things...

Allie