Thursday, September 4, 2008

Reading Literary Broads: A Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife is a book that Taranee had given me for Christmas with the recommendation "it's awesome!" Since what is awesome to a twentysomething is not necessarily so to her mother, it took me 2 years to get around to reading this book. I didn't exactly find it awesome, but the postmodernist that I am was intrigued by the possibility that time is not linear and that you can meet yourself in your past, present, and future. Which raises the question, what would be "home" to a time traveler--his past, present, or future? Which one of Me is the true Self? I was enthralled by the book's romantic premise of a woman who meets her future husband when she was seven and he was thirty. The time was never right for them--when would they be the right age to meet and fall in love?

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