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I read The Time Traveler’s Wife about a year ago.  It took me an entire exquisite weekend to finish and, now that I’ve dug it back out of the top bookshelf for Adam to read, just a few seconds to dive right back into it.  I didn’t really even *mean* to start re-reading it… it just happened.

It’s haunting, gorgeous, bitter, funny and makes you want to love and be loved and never ever stop.  There’s nothing bad that I could say about this book, except that it ended….

Author Audrey Niffenegger has also written an illustrated novel entitled ‘The Three Incestuous Sisters’ that I’ve been borderline interested in reading.  I peeked at it when it was first released and totally dug the rather gloomy, pretty illustrations – but I just couldn’t get around the incest bit   Silly me.

In turn, Adam has handed off his much loved Fantasy novel Philosophical Strangler to me to giggle at and discuss as I progress.  The wordplay is interesting and much more humorous than I expected – I like being pleasantly surprised by genres that I don’t normally dive into.  Quirky books are fun.

On a rather unrelated sidenote:  Have you seen the sweet new ‘Concordance’ feature (like this one for The Time Traveler’s Wife) on Amazon.com? It helps you dive into books before you buy them by creating a tagcloud with the top words used in the book, with links to pages/quotes using the words.  Don’t know why I like it, but I do.

Tags: Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Philosophical Strangler