The Time Traveler's Wife

Last month for our book club we read The Time Traveler's Wife. I only asked about joining the book club about a week before it met (total coincidence) and picked up the book the night before. The book is 536 pages and I tried my best to power through it. I read only a little over 300 before we met for book club. Let me first say this: this is not a book to try to power through. In fact, trying to read it so quickly actually gave me a headache, a first.

Here's the description from the back of the book:

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.

Wow, just reading that as I typed made me feel a little bit ill. I actually disagree with the back of the book on several counts. I don't think the book is a romantic trap. I think what happens in the book is unfair and almost cruel. Henry gets to travel through time and Clare is always left waiting. Always.

Because of the rushed nature in which I read this, I might give it another chance at another time. Maybe. I've got an awful lot of books that I want to read though...