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!
5 comments:
The Chicks With Books rock!!!!!
I am really excited to start the new book, Escape! I am going to pick it up from one of the only places that had it. Call ahead, ladies, this book is in popular demand!
I talked to a friend today who has read TTTW and she cried, too!!! Now I don't feel so bad. Last night, on 60 Minutes we watched a short report on the church that the Escape author is from and the scandal that is going on there. Now I'm more excited to read it! I just have to find it!
This blog looks awesome Jen!! I agree about finding the book. It was my choice of book and I had a hard time finding it. I am going to Atlanta Sunday and I cannot wait to read all the way there! Also I am looking forward to our next meeting.
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