The April 2008 Book of the Month
The Time Traveler's Wife
By Audrey Niffenegger
For the inaugural The Chicks With Books book club meeting, we read The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. We met at a Thai restaurant because Clare and Henry go out for Thai on their first date. This book was chosen by me, Jen, because it is one of my absolute favorite books.
The Time Traveler's Wife is the story of Clare and Henry. Henry is a time traveler and Clare is his life-long lover thanks to Henry's ability time travel into her childhood. This book is the story of their lives and their love story.
Here are some questions we discussed last night:
1. What qualities do you see in Clare as "the time traveler's wife"? Is the label a positive or negative one and why?
2. What role does fate play in the book, if any?
3. How do you imagine Clare and Henry's final "visit" together? What do they do? What do they talk about? How long does he get to stay?
Besides discussing these and other questions, we discovered who are the hopeless romantics in the group-who actually cried at various times in the book, which time in our lives we would time travel to to relive, and that it's best to request separate checks rather than trying to separate it ourselves!
