false <![CDATA[The Child in Time]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604785m/6869.jpg 6869 33 <i>The Child in Time</i> opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself: "It was a wonder there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none." This beautifully haunting book won a 1987 Whitbread Prize. 565440 1987 The Child in Time total:899|5:182|4:320|3:278|2:105|1:14| 899 3248 1429 104 4 2 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 05:20:54 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 12:29:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Feb 11 06:28:04 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 06:28:04 -0800 2008
Something happened to a number of bang-up in-for-the-kill horror writers in the early to mid eighties. I'm still trying to figure out what. Patrick McGrath, who'd given the world some of its most wonderfully gut-wrenching tales in _Blood and Wat...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 14 09:51:12 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 14 09:56:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 16 21:32:27 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 12:33:53 -0800 2009 "The Child in Time is one of the greatest novels I've ever read". Since at the time I was personally in a state of mind that made me relate quite sympathetically to his strug...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:53:46 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:46:44 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 21:38:13 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 19:23:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 23:05:25 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 09:25:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 27 06:56:31 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 06:57:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 12:41:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 12:48:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:59:48 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 25 22:35:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 16:31:16 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:05:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 13:43:56 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 13:07:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 17:02:19 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 17:10:13 -0700 2008
An author of children's books suffers the loss of his daughter, who is snatched from him in a supermarket line. He and his wife deal with the loss differently, and they separate. We see him go about the busines...more...]]> 2 0 false true Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 07:13:39 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 10:40:24 -0700 2008 Atonement and Saturday.

The book started well, and the scenes of Kate's disappearance were chilling. McEwan was inside his characters' ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 19:56:25 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 08:14:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 19 05:32:38 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 05:43:16 -0700 2008 Atonement. I can't say I enjoyed this nearly as much as that novel. Ironically, the first thing I noticed about this novel is the thing I enjoyed most about it. McEwan's writing is fluid and enjoyable. He has a way with words that is both sim...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 03 20:38:14 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:16:37 -0700 2009 Ian McEwan's The Child in Time. On the one hand, it is a brilliant account of McEwans's mastery with words. Modern and sagacious English rolls evenly page after page, and fills the reader with a sensation of watching a big river flow (even for the library mouse in me, thi...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 15:01:22 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 17:43:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 04:05:09 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 04:09:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 15:21:21 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 15:29:09 -0700 2009 Despite the fact that it is interesting, the writing style....or something...made it a slow read. Perhaps this is due to the times times when the husband seems ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6869