The Time Traveler's Wife (15)

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Fiction

This book is so long it surprised even me that I read it as fast as I did. A deeply entertaining and sometimes confusing love story involving travel through time and place is right up my alley. Though they have basically nothing in common occasionally while reading this book I would think of the film I Heart Huckabees and laugh. That entertained me. The love story aspect wasn't so great in a traditional "I will find you!" epic movie kind of way but more in the quiet resignation that "yes, I have in fact found the one and it will be good and sometimes hard but I have chosen this person over all others, the end." I like love stories like that.

There were a few things in the book that irritated me greatly though so if this were a traditional book rating system it would only get like 3 stars instead of 3.5. One was a convoluted and pointless plot twist, the other was the straight character repeatedly referring to lesbians as dykes. I think I've become one of those people who think if you aren't one, you can't refer to others as one, in relation for reclaimed slurs toward a group of people. Particularly in this book when it was so unnecessary, simply say lesbian, that's all. Totally unnecessary and thoroughly irritating.