I actually watched the preview for this book's movie with Rachel McAdams and I thought that the plot was really out of the ordinary and it seemed kind of like a Tuck Everlasting book that deals with time and age being altered.
This book very fascinating and entertaining. At times, Henry goes through time and he'll meet a six-year-old Clare that doesn't know him and he'll have to explain to her that he's a time traveler by proving to her that he knows her such as: her full name, birthday, parents, siblings, or how she loves to eat Dairy Queen ice cream in a vanilla cone with sprinkles, etc). Or other times, he'll meet Clare for dinner and will not know anything about her and she'll have to remind him that they went on dates together and went to special places on particular dates and give him something to prove that they know each other and have met before.
To be in Clare's position must be extremely lonesome, painful and emotionally tough to see Henry leave at any time especially when she's so madly in love with him and she has to spend days, months, years waiting for him and not knowing at what point he'll come back. How tough it must be to live life being lonely.
I kind of like the whole love story and unpredictable plot. I'll just have to wait and see which ways the author takes the story.
The Reader
Continuation 11/16/09-
This book is getting more and more interesting after each page. I just finished the part when Henry tells Clare about the accident his mother was in one awful-winter day and how he would have also been dead but he time traveled and he ended up naked on the road wondering how it had happened and he breaks down into tears while he tells Clare about it.
Like I mentioned in my first blog about the book, I love how the book contains an unpredictable plot and I find it fascinating that Henry isn't really allowed to tell or answer questions that may interrupt her current time in life. I love how the author keeps Clare with almost completely limited knowledge of the future otherwise it would spoil her life.
I do have some questions. Henry time travels back into time and the book clearly says something like Henry 32, Clare 16, but I just find it confusing when he goes back to when he was younger. Doesn't his family think it's weird to see Henry when he's 32 when he's only supposed to be 7? I don't really understand that part.
Other than that, I love the romantic relationship that Henry and Clare have as Henry travels back into time and meets Clare at different ages of her life. Something that has been really bugging me is that I can't imagine what Clare does when Henry doesn't time travel and how unbearable it must be to wait for him.
The Reader
Continuation 11.30.09--
I just finished the part after Clare and Henry got married and I'm comfortably through Part II of the book.
A couple of questions that came up as I was reading this book was the part when Henry goes to Ben Matteson to get drugs/medicine that would help him not get stressed so that he wouldn't time travel during the wedding (because he has a tendency to time travel in times). I'm curious because Ben warned Henry that the drugs had nasty side effects and there was one time that Henry ended up on the kitchen floor passed out and had to go to the emergency room. Because there is no cure for Chrono-Displacement Disorder, it would be pretty bad for Henry to take an experimental medicine (with no guarantee of actually working) and end up dying. I mean Henry also drinks quite a bit and I'm wondering if maybe he'll possibly give drinking alcohol to cope with stress and find an alternative way to relieve stress so he can stay with Clare.
I wonder what experiences Part II (A Drop of Blood in a Bowl of Milk) and married life will contain...
-The Reader
Continuation 12/10/09
I'm almost finished with the book but one part of the book that struck me was when Clare was going through a series of miscarriages. She had a total of six miscarriages and I can't imagine the sadness that ran over her each time the doctor had to deliver the news. In addition, I can't imagine the endless fights that occurred between Clare and Henry about having a child because Henry wanted to protect Clare but Clare only wanted something that resembled Henry and something that would stay with her. Furthermore, I can connect this to Glee because Terri and Will are also trying to have a baby and Terri wants a baby so badly that she ends up having a hysterical pregnancy. Because she doesn't have the courage to tell Will and she doesn't want him to leave her, she pretends she's pregnant. Both situations relate because there is one person in the couple that desperately want a baby more than anything but there are consequences. For Clare and Henry, it's that Clare has a chance of dying and the baby may be born with the same disorder as Henry, and for Terri and Will, it's the consequence of a broken relationship because Will trusted Terri and she lied to him because she loves him so much.
Can't wait for my next book,
The Reader
