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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

I'm reading "The Time Traveler's Wife." Not sure I'll be finishing it though. I'm on page 94 or something like that and I'm mega confused

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The inside cover and at the beginning of the book state that the main character Henry, the time traveler, has no control over his ability to time travel and that it is unpredictable and just happens randomly.

Yet throughout the book he meets up with either himself and/or his "wife" in the past on specific dates and times which he has given to them, in the past, so that they can expect him.

If this time traveling is random, how can he know dates that he is going to travel back in time to visit? Majorly confusing if you ask me.

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I'm listening to it right now...at their meeting in the Thai restaurant, she brings him a diary that he transcribed to her in her past that had all the dates they would meet...

Originally Posted by WellingtonCats

This was very different from the normal read. I really enjoyed it though.

I've been meaning to start for two nights now - my new book it's called The Boy I loved before written by Jenny Colgan. Has anyone read this?

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This was an OK book. Kind of "teenagery" though.

I'm just about to start Safari: I won't cry, Mumma written by Janet Seath and Frank Scaysbrook. It's about a retired couple who are surrogate parents to a six year old Kenyan boy.

I also reserved Marley & Me and Dewey: Library cat at my local library

Originally Posted by kluchetta

she brings him a diary that he transcribed to her in her past that had all the dates they would meet...

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Exactly. It was in her past that he transcribed the dates. So how does he know the dates that he is going to appear? That would mean a knowledge of the future and the ability to be able to pick and choose the times that he time travels back to, which are supposed to be completely random and unsuspecting in nature.

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Exactly. It was in her past that he transcribed the dates. So how does he know the dates that he is going to appear? That would mean a knowledge of the future and the ability to be able to pick and choose the times that he time travels back to, which are supposed to be completely random and unsuspecting in nature.

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I thought he knew the dates because he had already done them. But I am still at the part where HE first meets HER, but she has known him for a long time.

The Roald Dahl Omnibus by Roald Dahl.

Originally Posted by kluchetta

I thought he knew the dates because he had already done them. But I am still at the part where HE first meets HER, but she has known him for a long time.

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So you're saying he goes back in time to the same dates repeatedly, in a circle?

I gave up. After I made my last post I put the book aside and picked up something else to read. I took it back to the library today.

I'm not sure what all the rave reviews were about because it was the most confusing book I've ever tried to read in my life!

I am reading The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III - I really liked his other book, The House of Sand and Fog and so far I am getting into it.

Queen of the Damned, which I am finding easier going than The Vampire Lestat

I'm really into Philippa Gregory's books right now. She wrote The Other Boleyn Girl (which I still haven't read). I'm very interested in the history of England, and for some reason now, I can't get enough of the Tudors. I've read 3 of hers so far: The Boleyn Inheritance, The Constant Princess, (about Katherine of Aragon) and The Queen's Fool. I like the way she's obviously done her research, but writes fiction and from these people's heads. Very interesting.

The one I'm reading now, though, Fallen Skies, takes place right after WWI. I really like the way she writes.

I'm just finishing Cemetary Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. It's light reading, supernaturalmystery fluff, but that's about where my brain's been lately. It's about a bunch of murders that are apparently being comitted by deceased people who are being raised as zombies.

After that I have Valkyrie, the story about the attempted assasination of Hitler that the movie was based on.

I just finished The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón which was a good book. It really transports you back to the early 1900s - he really has a way with words. I made the mistake of reading the last couple of hundrd pages while tired, which confused me a bit, but I otherwise really enjoyed it.

I'm reading a book by Paul Doherty. It's called "Nightshade": it's the newest one, in a series of Medieval Mysteries starring the character "Sir Hugh Corbett". I'm really enjoying it.

He's written dozens of books so I'll be reading his work for awhile. If I find a series of books that I enjoy, I tend to search out the rest and read them before going onto another author.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/p-c-doherty/

I'n starting a biography of Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson.

I just finished my first Mystery/Suspense book by James Patterson called Sail and LOVED it! I finished in 2 days! I couldn't put it down Now I'm reading Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbinger. I love those girly books

Law School Confidential by Robert H. Miller.

It's not terribly interesting. It's just basically about what to expect in law school, what to do before I start, etc.

Aside from that, I'm also reading the Minnesota Driver's Manual to get my Minnesota license. Again, not very interesting. No fiction for me probably for a few years unless I can squeeze one in before school starts.

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite

I love her books, and I love her because she's such a cat lady!!

http://www.poppyzbrite.com/cats.html

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Exactly. It was in her past that he transcribed the dates. So how does he know the dates that he is going to appear? That would mean a knowledge of the future and the ability to be able to pick and choose the times that he time travels back to, which are supposed to be completely random and unsuspecting in nature.

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It's been a while since I read the book, but the way I understand it, he doesn't necessarily visit her in order. So, the first time she saw him could have been the last time he saw her. He might have been 40 when he visited her when she was 6 and 30 when he met her at 16. So, I guess he could have transcribed the dates to her on one of his last visits (he would be older, she could have been any age), even though she had many of those visits left to experience.

Very confusing, and even harder to explain. By the looks of it, in the movie, SHE records the dates he visits and then gives him the diary once they meet in the present. Kudos to whoever made that decision -it's much less confusing.

I was confused for about the first half of the book. Once I figured out what year it was in the present and what age both of them were in the present, and based all the time travelling around that, it wasn't confusing at all.

Right now, White Oleander and New Moon.

I just finished Borrower of the night by Elizabeth Peters. It's a pretty old mystery book that someone recommended, it kind of leans on historical fiction but I wouldn't call it that...I was so unimpressed- the whole plot was totally predictable. It was light and easy to read and though and it wasn't all that boring...
Now I am starting Bitten by Kelley Armstrong and I hope I like that!!