The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This morning i opened my Friendster’s profile intended to edit my profile on Fave books section. I Wrote down my very own “Life Changing Books”, as soon as i put “The Time Traveller’s Wife” in it, i realised i haven’t write any review yet on this book, what a shame.
Here it goes.
The prologue is unforgetable, the momen i read those first pages i knew it was a great book.
CLARE: It’s hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he’s okay. It’s hard to be the one who stays. I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.
I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I’m tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that’s been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?
Henry: All my pleasures are homey ones: armchair splendor, the sedate excitements of domesticity. All I ask for are humble delights. A mystery novel in bed, the smell of Clare’s long red-gold hair damp from washing, a postcard from a friend on vacation, cream dispersing into coffee, the softness of the skin under Clare’s breasts, the symmetry of grocery bags sitting on the kitchen counter waiting to be unpacked. I love meandering through the stacks at the library after the patrons have gone home, lightly touching the spines of the books. These are the things that can pierce me with longing when I am displaced from them by Time’s whim.
And Clare, always Clare. Clare in the morning, sleepy and crumple-faced. Clare with her arms plunging into the papermaking vat, pulling up the mold and shaking it so, and so, to meld the fibers. Clare reading, with her hair hanging over the back of the chair, massaging balm into her cracked red hands before bed. Clare’s low voice is in my ear often.
I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot follow.
This -partly romance, partly science fiction-novel is warm, witty, passionate, sensual, simply imagine yourself in a rollercoaster. A ride thru time and life that deeply moving. I have to fought tears several times, soppy i know. Altho the story jumped forward and backward you won’t get lost. It takes no effort for all it’s twisting timeline crossing. From time to time, Henry and Clare always found each other, try to live their life to the fullest at the moment while waiting for Henry to unavoidly jump to another timeline. An abnormal gene caused it.
This book shows you that Love, is not easy cos when it’s easy it’s just a forgetable fling.
aaaannndd…the Movie is coming! oo yea, i really wanna do the Chandler dance when i found out about it. Rachel McAdams will play Claire Abshire and Eric Bana as Henry de Tamble. I saw in IMDB that the movie will be released on Dec 25th 2008 in USA, hhh…just wondering when will it hit theatres in Indo.
