Read-Along
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Reading Resistance
This is the final post in my Summer Read-Along series on Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife; it was supposed to go up tomorrow, but due to weekend plans, I’m posting it a bit early! To post a comment or add a link please scroll down… It’s funny, because this isn’t the final post I envisioned for this series at all. I had thought that I’d probably write something along the lines of long-lasting love, or maybe the pain of grief and loss, or even a meditation on patience. But instead, I find that I am writing about resistance. My own resistance, to be exact. You see, when I first…
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Summer Read-Along Roundup – Post 3
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…
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A Mother’s Love
Thirteen years ago today, I became a mum for the first time. I was nineteen years old, newly married and, until my daughter came along, thought of myself as very grown up and responsible. But I will always remember the feeling of sheer panic that completely overtook me when I got home and my beloved had to return to work, leaving me alone with our baby for the first time… She was tiny. Born at just 6lbs 6oz, her weight had dropped to just below 6lbs before we brought her home. She had the most perfect olive skin and a tiny rosebud mouth. Precious jet black kiss-curls covered her head,…
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Summer Read-Along Roundup – Post 2
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…
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Mrs Darling’s Lament
[This is a post for The Time-Traveler’s Wife Summer Read-Along – please add your link to your Summer Read-Along post in the box below, leave comments and join in the conversation!] ‘Goodness, Clare, why in the world would you want to marry such a person? Think of the children you would have! Popping into next week and back before breakfast!’ I laugh. ‘But it will be exciting! Like Mary Poppins, or Peter Pan.’ She squeezes my hands just a little. ‘Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to…
