Dear Diary, I'm so love with someone whose username is LitermallyOwlMutt89 she writes a blog called Nerdfighter Voyager. . My Username is ShadowPudgeQ88
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger
What would you do if you met your husband before he met you?
That's the premise of this romantic but heart-breaking story about a wife, Clare, who like Odysseus' Penelope is always waiting for her husband Henry to return home. Henry has a gene disorder,Chrono-Displacement Disorder,, which makes him basically an epileptic time-traveler when he is under stress (for example their wedding when he's 31 but an older version had to stand in). Clare first meets him when he's 36 (and already dating her/married to her) but Clare's is only 6. Henry, on the other hand, doesn't meet Clare for the first time until he's 28 and Clare is 20 in 1991. Clare has many off-and-on visits from (the older) Henry throughout her childhood and adolescence until she was 18. After getting married, they try to have a baby but they have some problems and eventually have one child, a daughter Alba. There were parts of the story which are a bit too gory for me. It does get confusing at times when one chapter Henry with a young Clare and the Clare who is left behind knows what's going to happen since it already happen to her. There is a lot of supporting characters but I would love to mention Mrs.Kim, the feisty Korean Lady who is Henry's dad's landlord and also Henry's semi-caretaker when he's miserable.
I asked the reviewer what they thought about the scene in the book regarding a Pre-teen Alba vs. the same scene in the movie. LiterallyOwMuttl89 responded "I bloody hate that scene!!. I mean the book implies that by the time Alba is a pre-teen there are MORE people with CDD and the movie, not to mention it.. not to mention the fact Movie!Alba literally runs off with her father who traveled from the past (his present) vs. Book!Alba actually informs the teacher about the Dad
That night I want to bed and I had lovely dreams about what I pictured that LiterallyOwlMutt might look like
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