Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - New The Time Traveler's Wife is a 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger. It is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time-travel and his wife an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. In this book unlike many other...
but she's a girl... (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... must precede effect. There must have been thousands of books and films about time travel, but Niffenegger has the amazing ability to make you feel like you've never really known about time travel before. For a start, in most sci-fi books or films, the time traveller makes a deliberate choice to go to the future or the past: Henry has no choice. His ability is involuntary, and he jumps into...
rodcorp (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
I read 50 books this year, fewer than in the years before. Notably these: Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, 2003 - a rather beautiful and moving novel on memory, anticipation and loss. Dave Hickey's Air Guitar, 1997 - Hickey...
At A Hen's Pace (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... view of women. Well-researched and engagingly presented.The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (audio)An intriguing story that I'd love to recommend, if it weren't for all the sex scenes. I can overlook a good bit, but it was too much.Blessed Are the Cheesemakers, by Sarah-Kate Lynch (audio)Holiness for Housewives, by Hubert van ZellerSome good thoughts, but not really outstanding.A...
Sophisticated Dorkiness (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... some comparisons next year. My favorite books of 2008 were probably The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, and A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger. Clearly, there is a bit of a bias towards literary journalism because of my classes, but...
Catholic Writings (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
... I am powerless against it. I am reading, for the second time, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger. I first heard of it during World Youth Day. Shampoo was telling me over a smoke and a martini how she finally convinced Wind to read it. A few weeks ago, I borrowed it from her and downed it in two days. For the first time since I read “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”,...
Trendfo.com Hottest Trends (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
... December 20, 2008Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 11. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 12. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton 13. Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon 14. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 15. The Kite Runner -…treehouse.typepad.com- December 20, 2008873. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo. 880. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. 883. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens. 900....
Heretical Ideas (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
... only to come together at the last moment? Then let her give The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger a try. The Time Traveler’s Wife centers around Henry DeTamble and his wife, Claire. Henry suffers from a genetic disorder which causes him to be frequently “displaced in time.” As a result, the adult Henry gets to know Claire when she was a child, and she grows up knowing who...
Confessions of a Graveyard Gypsy (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
... Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger 19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot (I read this after watching the BBC dramatisation in the mid-nineties, and think Mr Causabon was completely miscast; he was almost dishy compared to the book version) 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22. The Great Gatsby - F...
Larocque and Roll (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... [2] Kevin Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead, David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time-Traveler’s Wife.
Goddammit (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
... - came highly rated, it was bobbins. American bobbins at that. 19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn...
dreamcatcher ~knitty in pink~ (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger20. Middlemarch - George Eliot21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh27....
Quelle Erqsome (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... D Salinger (Another classic one is supposed to love but I detest.) 19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I've read about half, but I don't think that counts.) 25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide...
Musings of a Bookish Kitty (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... by Chris Bohajalian by Wilkie Collins by Edwidge Danticat by Sara Gruen by Kazuo Ishiguro by Audrey Niffenegger by Virginia Woolf by Karen Armstrong by Mark Bowden by Elizabeth Gilbert Thursday, November 27, 2008 From My Family to Yours posted by Literary Feline @ 0 Comments: About Me Name: Wendy R.Home: California, United StatesAbout Me: At the age of five, Literary Feline was diagnosed...
