The Time Traveler's Wife

When I read The Time Traveler's Wife for the first time, it was when I first considering becoming a librarian. And honestly, it probably influenced my decision. The novel's chronologically challenged main character Henry is a librarian. Near the beginning of the book, future Henry gives younger Henry a tour of the Chicago Field Museum. First he shows his young self a room filled with dead birds that will be displayed in the museum. Then they go to the Field Museum's library and view Audubon's Birds of America. On looking at the book Henry states: "we begin again at the beginning and page slowly through the birds, so much more alive than the real thing in glass tubes down the hall" (Niffenegger, 2003: 35). And isn't that just so wonderful?! I think that that it so well illuminates one of the most beautiful things about books.

But The Time Traveler's Wife isn't a book about books, and interestingly it's focus isn't really science fiction. It is a timeless (in more ways than one) love story, beautifully and tragically written. If you haven't read it check it out!

References
Niffenegger, A. (2003). The Time Traveler's Wife. MacAdam/Cage Publishing