So those who know me well know I am sentimental (read:emotional/cries at sad scenes in movies - Marley and Me anyone?). Anywho, usually this only applies to movies and real life events. Wrong.
Fastforward to me in Chapters, innocently looking for books to add to my Christmas list because according to my Mom I hadn't given her enough ideas. So there I am just browsing when I come across The Time Traveller's Wife it looks interesting and is pretty long so I hand it off to my Mom to buy.
Along comes Christmas Day and I start reading - immediately I am hooked. Its a love story with a unique twist. The main male character (Henry) meets the female character (Claire) when he time travels to her family's property. Only thing is, she's 6 and he's in his early 20s. Also, whenever he time travels, he ends up arriving naked which obviously provides for some pretty interesting and awkward situations. And sometimes he visits himself at a younger age, and when Claire meets him in her 20s he doesn't know her because he hasn't time traveled yet, but she has already met him - confusing right? Its really hard to explain the whole concept of this book - especially in writing, but its definitely an interesting concept.
Not that I want to give anything more away, but when I was reading the end - and all the mysterious and confusing elements came together I was more or less crying my eyes out. Me, Christmas Day (night), laying in my basement crying over a book of all things. This was the first (and only) book to ever get that much of a reaction out of me and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Maybe its because it was a love story, maybe it was the writing style, or maybe I am just a sap - but nonetheless the tears were there and ever since I have been telling everyone I know to read this book. And I've proceeded to re-read it myself. (And yes, I did cry the second time too).
Now I just have to wait (impatiently I may add) for the movie to come out. As far as I know it is starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams and is in post-production. They keep pushing back the release date and I keep getting more and more frustrated.
I just hope this movie doesn't follow the trend of most other book-to-movie adaptations and ruin it. But I'm pretty sure no matter what I will be guaranteed to cry :P.
1 comment:
I want to read it! I was raiding my Mom's books the other day and I was happy to find it!! :) Summer reading!
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