The third of our roundup posts for our Summer Read-Along of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife seems to have crept up on me! Doesn’t time travel quickly 😉

There have been some lovely posts for you this week to check out. Please do click through to read the full posts and leave comments – such beautiful insightful writing is a real treat!

Imagine having your whole life already planned out for you. You know which college you will get into. You know when you’re going to meet the love of your life and more importantly who that is going to be. You know how you have your coffee before you’ve ever had coffee. You know where you’re going to live.

Imagine feeling like you have very little control over your life.
~ The Time Traveler’s Wife – Part 3 by Andy Pickup

This section to me, marks the beginning of the end. The point where Henry loses what little control he had over his life and has to learn to submit to the inevitable.
~ Journeying With The Time Traveler’s Wife – Week 3 by Rachel Hawes

& in all the rawness in that moment I saw what was truly there. In Clare’s endless waiting & Henry’s permanent loneliness & silent stoicism, I saw that we can be so good. We can be connected & intertwinned & ever grateful for what is ours.

I wandered into my tiny hallway covered in photos of memories & people I love & my heart simultaneously broke & mended itself. It fell apart & became whole, at once.
~ Now The Time Traveler’s Wife by Raeeka

Check back on Friday for my last post on The Time Traveler’s Wife. If you haven’t found an opportunity to write on the story, Friday would be the day to share – I’ll be compiling our last roundup post this time next week, so you’ll need to add your entries to this Friday’s Mr Linky if you want to be included.

Ooh, and our Twitter chat has been rescheduled for tomorrow at 2pm BST (GMT +1) – just use the hashtag #TTWchat to join in 🙂

Following on from my 2nd post on our Summer Read-Along book, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time-Traveler’s Wife, here are excerpts from others who are participating by reading and sharing their thoughts…

The station doesn’t look like much, but a railway is a network that can take a person to remarkable destinations from the most unlikely of starting points. You, for example – who could possibly have imagined? Not me, obviously, but you took precautions just in case. I wonder, from an uncrossable distance of time and place: if I’d found out what you were planning, if I’d got there in time, if I’d asked you to stay, would you have come home with me? ~ Sara Kirkpatrick – There Is Another Station

From what I gather, this book is something a lot of women can identify with. Feelings of loss, suffering, pain etc. I don’t wish to belittle any of that but I am going to give my man’s opinion. Bear with… ~ Andy Pickup – The Time Traveler’s Wife – Part 2

A feeling of loneliness and isolation pervades this book.  Henry is one of a kind, a lone time traveller in a world of people living by linear time.  He knows too much; the birth dates of children not yet born, when he’ll get married, his own death date.  Even the knowledge of winning lottery tickets, while helpful when it comes to financial burdens, just isolates him from the rest of humanity and prevents him from living the normal life he so desires. ~ Rachel Hawes – Journeying With The Time Traveler’s Wife – Week 2: Loneliness

Now at the magic age of 43 (another poignant number in the book) I am finding the person I am now. In time I know when I have unravelled all the pieces in my head and put them back together a hundred times I will see the answers I need so desperately and forgive myself and never lose myself again. ~ Anita-Clare Field – I Once Was Loss(ed) & Now I’m Found

I feel a great connection to Clare here, because I too have seen my dreams and creations shrink to fit the space I had.  For the last two years, my husband and I have been in a very small space.  We have a bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen.  We have no privacy because my parent’s pool is in our kitchen and no separate space to get away from each other.  I am a creative, artsy craftsy person and I love to make things with my hands.  While we’ve been here, I haven’t been creating or drawing or painting or feeding my soul in all those wonderful ways.  I have felt myself receding away piece by piece. ~ Raven – Expansion and Magic With The Time Traveler’s Wife

Wondering perhaps that the thing we strive for should not be to present in the moment, which is always moving, but to be present – even only sometimes, even only fleetingly – in places that hold time differently, in a loop of past and present moments. ~ Joanna Paterson – In the Presence of the Mountains

Each and every one of these posts offers a beautifully unique and personal perspective on The Time Traveler’s Wife. In some cases this is more explicit than others, but each offers so much to our ongoing discussions surrounding this story. I do so hope that you’ll take some time to visit these posts, leave some comments and enter into the conversations.

We’ll be having a Twitter chat on Wednesday at 2pm BST  (GMT +1) which will last for one hour and is open to all using the hashtag #TTW. If you can’t make that time, don’t worry – I’ll be on and off Twitter all day (and night more than likely!), and am happy to engage in discussion throughout the day.

Looking forward to hearing what you think about the book!!

Oh, and if you’re only finding our about this read-along now, it’s not too late to join in. Simply grab yourself a copy, start reading and begin sharing your thoughts on your blog, in your comments and on Twitter.