Thursday, April 12, 2012

Time traveler's wife



It was 20 years old when I met Henry. I felt so happy and I told him that actually met him when I was 6. Unfortunately he doesn't remember but he agrees to go out for dinner. I told him that he has the time travel disorder. He could travel back to time and to the future. I also told him that he couldn't bring anything with him when he travels.

On the Christmas, I brought him to meet my family. Shortly after, he proposed to me. Both of our family agreed. We were happy then. But because of a small apartment, I was unable to properly pursue my work as an artist. By travelling, Henry won $8 million lottery. He used that money to buy a house with a large studio for me.

Till then, I wished to have a baby because even after Henry's gone, there'll still be a part of Henry with me. But Henry decided to get a vasectomy because the travelling condition has heredity. We argued. So I met the younger version of him that enables me to get pregnant again.

One day, I found Henry on the living room floor, back from his travels and with severe hypothermia. At the hospital, his feet have to be amputated above the ankle. We both know that not being able to run now puts him in severe danger on his time travels.

At the new year party after his 43rd birthday, he traveled to one of my past and he got shot by my brother, Mark during his hunting. I was terrified. That moment on, I knew that I've lost him.

Years and years later, I've been waiting for him at my own house when I first met him. I put every clothing he needs so whenever he travels here, he has something to wear on. Finally, he travelled here. My daughter, Alba saw him and she called me immediately. I ran as fast as I can to reach for him. Hoping to see him again. Finally, I ran into him arms. We hugged and kissed each other tightly. I missed him so much. But just awhile, he was gone. Alba came to me and hugged me and we walked away. One second he was here and the next second he was gone.

Monday, April 2, 2012


Time traveller’s wife
The Time Traveller's Wife" is a modern day fable of love in the face of a genetic anomaly that keeps tossing a guy named Henry, naked and quivering, in and out of his better half's life at the most unpredictable and inconvenient of times.
This happens first when young Clare is 6 and alone in a meadow and a 36-year-old naked stranger calls to her from behind the bushes. He asks for her blanket and wants to say "Hi."
One day when henry was back in travel when he was 27. In Chicago, however, he is not able to control the moment or the destiny of his voyages. When the stranger Clare meets him in the library, she invites him to have dinner with her in his favourite restaurant Beau Thai where she confesses that she has been in love with him since she was six years old. Henry leans that he had visited her many times in the real state of her parents and he falls in love with her. Sooner they get married, but the life of Clare becomes troubled with the successive unexpected travels of her beloved husband.
This book has been talking about how a woman using the rest of her life for waiting a person that she loved that travel around and don’t even know when his coming back. She raised their baby on her own. She’s being so Strong and just to be in love with someone that’s not existing for half of her life time.

As this was the first book by the author, I was not expecting much but after reading it I was completely stunned. The book is written magnificently by the author. There are hardly any glitch either from the point of writing or story. You might expect few errors from a literary person while writing sci-fiction. But I hardly found them (except time travel gene).

Another good point of a book which I found interesting is that the author keeps rotating narration from Clare to Henry in the whole book. And she kept the track of time-line in a perfect manner.

From a romance novel point of view also, it has all the flavor. She has shown the ups and downs in the married life and the love of Clare for Henry and vice-versa.

If you are an avid reader and fond of books, you can't miss this one.