The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)

by Audrey Niffenegger | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 015602943x Global Overview for this book
Registered by newk of Adelaide, South Australia Australia on 7/22/2004
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9 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Thursday, July 22, 2004
My second registered copy. The other is travelling the world and its ring is getting ever larger. I hence felt sorry for those on the end who might never get to read what is meant to be a great book.
So off this one goes to tantan. By the time it is finished I shall have a working order up here.
Enjoy.

Please:

Journal when received and soon after PM next in line so that there is plenty of time for address notification.

If you are taking longer than a month to read...quite possible with this book..please make an update entry.

Journal when you have posted and maybe give some details of type of postage and where it was sent. This helps us be sure it has actually left and gives a rough idea of when it might arrive at the next reader's .

Otherwise common sense, communication and goodwill should see the book back to me so I can finally read it myself (my pile is too big and rings and so on just keep arriving)

Journal Entry 2 by tantan from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Received in the mail today. Many thanks to newk for getting this on the road backwards as well as forwards. :-) It'll be up next as soon as I finish The Shipping News.

Edit 07/08/04:
I'm now about half-way through this, and am having a very hard time of getting my Saturday washing done because I can't stop reading this! More when I'm done!

Journal Entry 3 by tantan from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Sunday, August 8, 2004
Wow! This was one of the best books that I have read in quite some time! I read more than three hundred pages in one day (pretty good for me), and finished the rest this morning. I just couldn't put it down. If Audrey Niffenegger writes another book I don't see how she can top this. :-) The writing was good, the story gripped my attention, and for a story this involved I actually managed not to get confused. What more can I say? Clare and Henry's love story is quite an epic! I'm looking forward to hearing reactions from the rest of you on the ring as I have heard that some people have had differing opinions to me - I don't know how though! :-)

Journal Entry 4 by boreal from Dunedin, Otago New Zealand on Thursday, August 19, 2004
This arrived today, thanks tantan for posting it here and to Newk for starting the ring. I am looking forward to reading it after hearing so much about it and will start as soon as I have finished "The God Boy" by Ian Cross, a NZ classic that I am reading for the first time.

Journal Entry 5 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Sunday, August 22, 2004
ok ok I am a slacker. Next is the cat and then brujula in france. Hope it is ok for futurecat to post to France?
Boreal has finished. It must be a cracker because it is large.
I am unsure if I have mentioned it here yet but you may also like Kindred by Octavia Butler.

Journal Entry 6 by boreal from Dunedin, Otago New Zealand on Monday, August 23, 2004
What a great book! This must be the best book I have read for quite a while and is the best of the year so far. It gripped me from the very first page and I finished reading it this morning and was sad to get to the end, it was one of those books that leave you feeling lost when you have finished.
It did take me a while to get the time travel bit sorted out, especially getting my head around Henry meeting Henry at the same age, incidentally I read that the author made timelines for both Clare and Henry to keep things in order while she was writing.

While it was basically a love story the time travel bits made it special and unique and I agree with Tantan, if the author writes another book (and I think she is) it will be hard to better this one.

Journal Entry 7 by boreal from Dunedin, Otago New Zealand on Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Posted to Futurecat, today, Wednesday.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Journal Entry 8 by futurecat from Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Tuesday, August 31, 2004
It's very exciting when you come back from holiday and there's all these parcels waiting for you!

I seem to have hit one of those times when all the bookring books arrive at once, but I promise I'll get on to reading this one as soon as possible.

Thanks newk, and boreal!

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Journal Entry 9 by futurecat from Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Wednesday, September 22, 2004
I really enjoyed reading this book - it's seriously unputdownable! I was a bit worried when I started it that the plot was going to be overly convoluted, with all the skipping back and forth through time, but that worry disappeared within a few pages - somehow the author manages to make it all work, and really make you care about the characters. I think it's a good sign that even though a lot of the time you know well in advance what is going to happen (because so do the characters), there's still an edge-of-your-seat-ness to a lot of it.

A really good book!

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Journal Entry 10 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Glad you enjoyed catty. Brujula in France next and then scrawler in Poland. I am taking them off the end of the other ring copy

Journal Entry 11 by futurecat from Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Thursday, September 23, 2004
On its way to France...

Journal Entry 12 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Sunday, October 10, 2004
I found it on my dining room table together with all the mail arrived during my vacation!
This looks like a very good book, but it will have to wait a bit while I read through the other rings that are already at my home!

Thank you FutureCat and newk!

Journal Entry 13 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Friday, November 5, 2004
Going well...next is scrawler in Poland. I am taking them off the end of the other ring. many thanks all and see some of you next weekend

Journal Entry 14 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Sunday, November 7, 2004
hold those horses. Scrawler is snowed under and asked to be skipped.

Drum roll please...next is silentmiaouw. Hope I got spelling right. I'll check and change if needed

Journal Entry 15 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Friday, November 12, 2004
I've really enjoyed this book, although it is a bit difficult for me to talk about it without any spoils!
It's really a beautiful story of love, patience, acceptance...

Thank you so much, newk for letting me read this book! It has kept me in a dream-like state for a week... I didn't want the story to end, I just wanted it to go on and on!

I've mailed it to silentmiaouw an hour again! Happy reading!

Journal Entry 16 by over-the-moon from Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland on Thursday, November 18, 2004
Oh gosh it's absolutely huge! I promise I'll try and read it within a month. I'm reading something very sombre at the moment so will be glad to plunge into another frame of mind with this one.
Thanks for the postcard, brujula, and for the book newk.

Journal Entry 17 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Wednesday, November 24, 2004
I am taking these off the reverse order ring..that is why I am so slack in having an order here.

Next is jessibud and then beckerbuns.

As above I need to do a spelling check.

Journal Entry 18 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Wednesday, November 24, 2004
jessibud has a copy from another source. Beckerbuns next. Sorry to appear to be making it up as I go along but as said I am taking them off the reverse order..the original ring.
Cheers all

Journal Entry 19 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Friday, November 26, 2004
Sorry again, I am confusing things by running two rings of this. Next is almost certainly beckerbuns who I think has got confused and thinks I am offering her another copy of the book when all I was doing was checking that she is still interested. After beckerbuns is shpriz1...I had to cut and paste that. There must be a story behind that name.

NB I have confirmed that shpriz1 is ready and waiting after beckerbuns

Journal Entry 20 by over-the-moon from Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland on Saturday, November 27, 2004
A very enjoyable book. I sometimes found it difficult to get my head round the fact that there could be two Henrys at the same time, one in the present, one from past or future, but the different threads gradually unentangled themselves and it fell into place. The author was quite clever, for each time I found myself questioning things, the answer came a few pages later. It's just a bit weird that Henry should lose his clothes and other "extras" such as tooth fillings while travelling - why doesn't he lose the blood of his various transfusions? I also liked the background theme of papermaking (picture = hand-made paper), and loved Henry's letter to Clare, which I will copy out and keep.

A small rant, just to get it off my chest: if authors think fit to scatter bits of foreign languages around the text, they (or their editors) really should check they have got it right. Hors d'oeuvres has an e in it; the German for etcetera - which comes up twice though I don't really know why, is und so weiter, not und so wiete. That sort of mistake makes my hair stand on end.

Thank you, newk. The book will be going to beckerbuns next week. It's particularly appropriate that you have two threads going for this, they seem to follow the pattern of the storyline. It will be fun when they meet up in the middle!

These is the extracts I wanted to copy from Henry's letter:
"Please Clare. When I am dead. Stop waiting and be free. Of me - put me deep inside you and then go out in the world and live. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as through it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element....
After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird...
We will see each other again, Clare. Until then, live, fully, present in the world, which is so beautiful... Time is nothing."

Journal Entry 21 by beckerbuns from Los Gatos, California USA on Thursday, December 30, 2004
This book arrived today from Switzerland. I am looking forward to reading it! I am going to finish the book I'm currently reading (as I've promised it to someone) and then start this one. Thanks!!!

Journal Entry 22 by beckerbuns from Los Gatos, California USA on Saturday, January 15, 2005
This book, as others have said, was absolutely wonderful and impossible to put down. After only four days of late nights reading and continuing to read it on every break at work, I just finished. What an amazing, warm, sentimental book. This is a truly remarkable author and I look forward to reading more of her work. I am PMing shpriz1 (hope I am spelling it right), to send the book on. Newk, thank you SO much for including me!!

Journal Entry 23 by beckerbuns from Los Gatos, California USA on Tuesday, January 18, 2005
I'm sending this wonderful book off to shpriz1. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Journal Entry 24 by shpriz1 from Clifton, New Jersey USA on Saturday, January 29, 2005
Received it safe and sound. Will start ASAP...

Journal Entry 25 by shpriz1 from Clifton, New Jersey USA on Monday, February 7, 2005
This was a great book. Awesome love story. It was somewhat difficult to follow up with all these days going back and forward, but eventually everything made sense.
Thank you newk for sharing this book.

Journal Entry 26 by BarkLessWagMore from Merrimack, New Hampshire USA on Wednesday, February 23, 2005
This one was squeezed into my mailbox this afternoon I'm thrilled to say! Unfortunately, I have several ring books at the moment and am putting this in the queue. I will get to it as soon as I possibly can and report back. Thanks for sharing everyone, I've been looking forward to this one for a long while.

Journal Entry 27 by BarkLessWagMore from Merrimack, New Hampshire USA on Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Ahhh, I can't believe I've held on to this one for so very long and do apologize. Being last on the list and the sheer of size of the book forced my procrastinating gene to kick into high gear ;) I started it last night and ended up staying up until 1am (I will pay for this later today) but only managed to get a small way into the book. It is mighty confusing with the time leaps and just when I'm thinking I have things all straightened out the rug is pulled out from under me again! The story is fascinating and addictive despite all of the work it is causing my brain. I'll comment more as I make my way through it.

Journal Entry 28 by BarkLessWagMore from Merrimack, New Hampshire USA on Friday, April 22, 2005
Wow, this book is utterly addictive. It's difficult to write anything about it without spoiling it for others and because of the crazy time jumps. It's almost like I'm reading little vignettes of Claire & Henry's lives rather than a typical novel. Fascinating approach and I'm enjoying it very much.

I heard several months ago,before the Jen & Brad breakup, that their production company had planned to film this book Wonder if it will ever happen now? I can't picture Aniston as pale skinned, flame haired Claire anyhow. . .

Later: I adored this book. It is one of the most romantic books I've read in ages. It's witty, the people act and react like real people you might like to know and it'll rip out your heart. I just purchased the unabridged audiobook version from audible.com so I can listen to it whenever I please. Thanks for sharing this great book!

Journal Entry 29 by BarkLessWagMore at Bookring 2 in bookring, Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Friday, April 29, 2005

Released 18 yrs ago (4/29/2005 UTC) at Bookring 2 in bookring, Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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Sending back home to newk today!

Journal Entry 30 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Monday, June 27, 2005
This is really great! I have two copies of this book travelling the world. Reverse rings because the book was so popular and the ring size was becoming unwieldy with one book.
This copy arrived home today. What a joy. Thankyou so much all for sharing the book with me. I still gotta read it.

Tantan...I reckon you were part of the honeymoon winning table over the weekend. Hopefully we can catch up a bit more later.

Boreal.. I note you kept an eye on us over the weekend. Mrs newk willing we can catch up in Dunedin next year. "Bookcrossing..get it done in Dunedin in 2006"

Futurecat..the one and only. The releaser of the greatest number of books at BrisCon. Well done.

Brujula and SM...Thanks for restoring my faith in European bxers. SM you got a mention on the weekend. I reckon you sent a few books as prizes at the convention. Good onya.

Shpriz1 and LaurieS. thanks also. Love the doggy Laurie. And it was good of you to go on the end and send it back.


Now onto the pile it goes.

Thanks again all

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