{"id":146,"date":"2004-02-26T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2004-02-26T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T22:33:00","slug":"the-time-travelers-wife-by-audrey-niffenegger-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/02\/the-time-travelers-wife-by-audrey-niffenegger-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very enjoyable&#8211;an unusual blend of science fiction and general-fiction-bordering-on-romance. The time traveler is Henry, punk-rock-loving librarian (how could I not read this book?), who has Chrono-Displacement Disorder; when he&#8217;s stressed, he vanishes from the present and re-appears, naked, in another time (often one that&#8217;s meaningful to him, seldom more than a few decades away). His wife is Clare, who first meets Henry when she is 6 and he is 36; he first meets her in real time when he is 28 and she is 20. Niffenegger ( I love that name!) brings out both the strangeness and the normalcy of this tangled, predestined?, deeply loving relationship. It&#8217;s not particularly good SF qua SF (although much better written than most), but as straight fiction it&#8217;s terrific. One of the things Henry does when back in the past, aside from hanging out with his younger self, is going to rock concerts he missed the first time around. I can&#8217;t think of a concert I particularly regret off the top of my head, but I would go see Ursula LeGuin speak in 1983&#8211;can&#8217;t believe I was foolish enough to pass that up the first time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very enjoyable&#8211;an unusual blend of science fiction and general-fiction-bordering-on-romance. The time traveler is Henry, punk-rock-loving librarian (how could I not read this book?), who has Chrono-Displacement Disorder; when he&#8217;s stressed, he vanishes from the present and re-appears, naked, in another time (often one that&#8217;s meaningful to him, seldom more than a few decades away). His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}