anyone read the time traveller's wife?

[bundle]

just wondered what people thought about it, that's all.

margaret forsters new one is called "Is there anything you want?"

It's about the lives of a group of women who all go to the same clinic in a hospital.Have just read the blurb on the back,haven't started it yet.
love all her stuff though

now onto Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, it's intriguing... (Margaret Forster sounds v matronly..names can really put me off books!)

I really loved it and was sooooo disappointed when i finished it (and cried rather a lot). Only 2 of us liked it in my book club tho - everyone else thought it was rubbish.

margaret forster writes a lot about the differing lives of women either throughout history or modern day.She's written some great biographies.

agree the name is really old fashioned ,but she's no spring chicken now!

excuse the blatant advert,can you tell she's my favourite author?

pants

wong you have no taste

none of them have bundle...all cold hearted wenches I tell ya!!

maybe you were experiencing it on a different level to the rest of us, but I remember hurling it across the parlour floor and setting the Wedgewood down on its sauce with a clank, it vexed me so

Loved it, on the whole. Loved it indeed to the extent that I was willing to overlook some glaring problems with the plot.

Mainly... why didn't Clare's father and brother recognise Henry when they shot him in the meadow?

gosh that's exactly how i felt about the Shadow of the Wind...I was so cross at how bad it was, I HAD to finish it..grrrrr

(wong - have you read any Murakami? lovin' it so far and word on the street is that Norwegian Wood is a winner)

orlando, also why did we never see Henry's mum timetravelling? (I assume that's how he knew it was inherited)

Murakami? Hmmm no let me add it to my list

Have read an Angus Wilson short story and I like the cut of his jib,

And did you ever find the ham recipe bundle? And how are the lovely little Bundles?

Orlando I think they shot him from a distance and by the time they had got to the spot he had travelled back but was there from another time alive and well IYSWIM

Hadn't thought of that bundle. Given what happened to him I don't know why he wasn't more devastated by his daughter's time travelling tendencies too.

But I'm being picky. I DID love it.

I think you're right, somni. I just thought that there were so many possible ways to kill him off that it would have been less confusing to find something else. You would have thought that a shooting incident in the family would have made quite an impression on clare's childhood

woah somni

fairly loved it though i thought he sounded like the classic awful boyfriend who ruins your family parties by sitting there with a Mona Lisa smile at how awful they all are and leaving you with divided loyalties

also thought a lot grislier than I expected with the feet thing

but v imaginative

((I quite fancied him))

I started it but couldn't get into it. Should I persevere with it then?

Oh I absolutely loved this book - one of the best I've read for ages. So unusual and written very convincingly. Can't agree with any of the negative comments.

Orlando - surely they didn't recognise him when they shot him becasue they hadn't met him yet. They met him for the first time when clare brings him over for dinner and then they do recognise him and comment between themselves something oblique about a stunning resemblence but they don't say to what and we're left to guess.

I think it a marmite of a book - you love it or you hate it it seems.

suzy, i can't believe i still haven't dug that out for you yet....must try harder.

the bundles are fine - apart from dd2 has chest infection, she's been quite poorly actually. was thinking about you as tried to park car on hill nr whittington...got so flustered that the parking attendant man put HIS OWN MONEY into the meter for me! - she had xrays and blood tests and screamed the place down but all clear (back to the emergency dr 3 days later who said "oh yes, she definitely has chest infection")

I read it when I was 8 months preggers and and loved it; SOBBED through the end. I'm afraid to read it again is case it was hormone induced!

Me too pmdishwasher! Thought it was a beautifully written book, will always keep that one on the bookshelf and might even re-read which is a rarity for me (give me a few years in between, mind.)
Never had myself down for a love story type thing, but then relationships of all kinds are what makes the world!