“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”, “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”, “I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”, “It's hard being left behind. The Time Travelers Wife Book review Regan Burley No major spoilers here. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email. Reader Reviews. And now the results are in. Though it may satisfy fans of the novel, The Time Traveler's Wife's plot contrivances and illogical narrative hamper its big screen effectiveness. May 2004, 560 pages. tags: lose, lost-love, moment. All Quotes "Oui." - from The Ninth Duino Elegy,RAINER MARIA RILKE,translated by STEPHEN MITCHELL, Saturday, October 26, 1991 (Henry is 28, Clare is 20). $39 for a year. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. History, Find books by time period, setting & theme, Read-alike suggestions by book and author. The last time I saw him he was sucking my toes in the Meadow. "Come and have coffee with me, or dinner or something. Here! "Voilà." My stomach lurches. The papers are beautiful, but cataloging is dull, and I am feeling bored and sorry for myself. I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. I look up the book itself and fill out a call slip for it. May 2004, 560 pages. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”, “We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”, “Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”, “Maybe I'm dreaming you. She reaches over and touches my cheek. Copyright Audrey Niffenegger 2003. We kiss. I sign the Visitors' Log: Clare Abshire, 11:15 10-26-91 Special Collections. Search String: Summary |  I say "Have we met?" 573 likes. Candlelight?" Henry is glancing around us, worrying that readers, coworkers are noticing us, searching his memory and realizing that some future self of his has met this radiantly happy girl standing in front of him. "Clare?" Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel. You wake up in the County Hospital concussed with a policeman sitting outside your door listening to the Phillies game on a crackly transistor radio. I love you, always. "It's because for you none of it has happened yet, but for me, well, I've known you for a long time.". A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history. I try to explain. Search String: Summary |  Clare counts. I discover one white shirt still in its dry cleaning bag. Author Bio, First Published: CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. She looks at me and realizes that I am confused by her response. As I stand in the elevator, dazed, I realize that a massive winning lottery ticket chunk of my future has somehow found me here in the present, and I start to laugh. Please, Clare. ." She is unbuttoning my shirt. Speculative, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alt. Excerpt |  Excerpted from The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. HENRY: At 6:00 p.m. Full access is for members only. The waitress appears and hands us menus. "I'm sorry! I wait for him. What nasty ideas you have!" I was sort of tangled up in a bunch of galoshes, and it smelled like rain. Author Bio, First Published: he asks. Stop waiting and be free. The room was white, and intensely lit with morning sun. Title We plan to meet tonight at a nearby Thai restaurant, all the while under the amazed gaze of the woman behind the desk, and I leave, forgetting about Kelmscott and Chaucer and floating down the marble stairs, through the lobby and out into the October Chicago sun, running across the park scattering small dogs and squirrels, whooping and rejoicing. "Have your cake and eat it too." I accept, stunned. "Is there something I can help you with?" She looks like a Botticelli by way of John Graham: huge gray eyes, long nose, tiny delicate mouth like a geisha. "That's my motto." © BookBrowse LLC 1997-2020. -Clare”, “that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws”, “When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.”. ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. "Okay. She said she was a little girl? Now I wait for Henry. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.”, “I'm living under water. I can barely refrain from throwing my arms around him. She is glowing at me, although I am unshaven and hung over and just not at my best. I slide into the booth opposite her. It's hard to be the one who stays. "Come and have coffee with me, or dinner or something...." Surely he has to say yes, this Henry who loves me in the past and the future must love me now in some bat-squeak echo of other time. It makes it more multi-sensory." Clare, there is one last thing, and I have hesitated to tell you, because I’m superstitiously afraid that telling you might cause it to not happen (I know: silly) and also because I have just been going on about not waiting and this might cause you to wait longer than you have ever waited before. I was getting lonely." With Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Michelle Nolden. ." Reading Guide |  Everything is sublime and has an aura, and suddenly you are intensely nauseated and then you are gone. I am jubilant. Quotes By Audrey Niffenegger. My head is throbbing. Leaving the marbled papers in a state of controlled chaos, I walk through the office and past the page's desk in the Reading Room. Read free book excerpt from The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, page 1 of 10 Become a Member and discover books that entertain, engage & enlighten. A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage. Clare is offended; I can't tell how genuinely. Ten minutes, ten days. Reading Guide |  I accept, stunned. . Excerpt |  I'm terribly sorry about that-", "Oh, no, you shouldn't be. "Don't move." I take walks. . Author So simple. A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. © BookBrowse LLC 1997-2020. Do you do this to all the boys?" I work until I'm tired. I say "Have we met?" I always like to eat cookies while I look around museums. She had a cup of tea beside her, on a table. I thrust the roses at her. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. I mean, Knowledge is Power, and all that. The author of Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel. I mean, I know...why that is." I mean, do you understand why I don't know you? If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. To my immense relief he does say yes. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Nothing.The sufferings, then. It was sweet, Clare, it was sweet beyond telling, to come as though from death to hold you, and to see the years all present in your face. Just a quick overview of the main storyline and themes. Here is Henry, calm, clothed, younger than I have ever seen him. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy. I try to explain. ", "Thank you," says Clare, absurdly pleased. And this astoundingly beautiful amber-haired tall slim girl turns around and looks at me as though I am her personal Jesus. and Isabelle gives me a look that says You asshole. "I guess I should take consolation in the fact that my future self will at least have some weapons of subjugation. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”, “I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. She would have hated it. Then I remember. Reader Reviews. "Hello," I say. This makes it worse that I don't know anything about her, not even her name. Henry wearing my dad's old fishing trousers, patiently quizzing me on multiplication tables, French verbs, all the state capitals; Henry laughing at some peculiar lunch my seven-year-old self has brought to the Meadow; Henry wearing a tuxedo, undoing the studs of his shirt with shaking hands on my eighteenth birthday. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more destiny in the world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and you, keep you, hold you. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. Henry is looking at me patiently, uncertain but polite. . Obviously she knows me, and I don't know her. A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Everything seems simple until you think about it. "Henry!" I draw her to me. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy. in this very evocative way that convinces me that at some point in time we have a really amazing thing together. Step One: unlock seventeen locks on apartment door, fling myself into the living room-which-is-also-my-bedroom and begin stripping off clothing. I want to laugh at the weirdness of the whole thing. Aug 2003, 518 pages Reviews |  Last summer, I was sitting in Kendrick’s waiting room when I suddenly found myself in a dark hallway in a house I don’t know. Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. ( Log Out /  - Henry deTamble”, “The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.”, “Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife. I cross the lobby, and as I run down the stairs to the street I see Clare running across Washington Square, jumping and whooping, and I am near tears and I don't know why. Readalikes |  Like “I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife. I'm horrible. As she says "Nine hundred and sixty-seven," I remove the tie from her eyes. Title In fact, I am feeling old, in the way only a twenty-eight-year-old can after staying up half the night drinking overpriced vodka and trying, without success, to win himself back into the good graces of Ingrid Carmichel. After my mom died she ate my father up completely. Information at BookBrowse.com is published with the permission of the copyright holder or their agent. I startle old women and amaze children. The author of Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel. Step Five: look around and realize that the apartment is a mess. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes.

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