Felina's comments
Felina's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.
Note: Felina is no longer a member of this group.
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Oh Allison I love A Short History of Nearly Everything. That was an excellent pick.
I write in my books or underline/highlight only if I know I'm keeping the book. On bum days I like to go through my favorite books and read my favorite passages.
But I don't dog ear or allow my books near food. I also think its a sin to fold a paperback book cover to cover. *shutters* I recently got a package from Barnes and Noble where one of the books had inadvertantly been packaged with its back cover bent. I'm reading that book now and every time I touch it I feel that bend and it drives me crazy.
Candace, I think we have pretty much the same books and dvds. Scary...we're kindred spirits.
Wedding Situation: The older Henry came to the wedding because he knew that young Henry was going to time travel and miss the wedding because he'd lived through it already. When he came back older he had actually not been there for his wedding. So technically he married Clare when he was much older. And because he had already lived through his wedding and the whole time traveling/missed the wedding when he was younger he knew what he had to do when he was older and traveled back to that date. Time in linear therefore when Henry travels through time he ends up traveling along the same path...which is why he cannot change the future (case and point the masturbating teenage sequence). So when Henry's (plural) meet at any point in time the older Henry will always remember what happened because he remembers it from when he was the younger Henry and he met older Henry in real time.
Does that make sense?
I actually feel bad for Gomez. He seems to be a very misunderstood character. He found himself in love with Clare and being unable to persue her because she's in love with someone who she technically hasn't met yet. Then when he does meet Henry he's this total douche that he's seen about clubs treating woman like objects & trash. I think that would give him the right to be a little protective of Clare.
I don't think this makes up for the fact that his bedroom techniques are gross (smoking the whole time, really?) or the fact that he put the moves on Clare right after Henry had died.
And it also doesn't help that Ron Livingston play his character in the movie and I love Ron. Viva la Office Space!
Its funny because in the book I never got the idea that Hanna was some experienced bomb shell sex goddess like other people seemed to. She seemed very average to me.
Did anybody see Rachel McAdams on The Daily Show last week? She was promoting the movie and she totally gave away a lot of major plot points. It was hilarious. Jon kept giving her crap about it.
The only thing that really struck me that was different was that in the movie Hanna and Michael seemed to actually care for eachother.
It seemed to me in the book Hanna was really only using Michael. And Michaels interest in Hanna was really infatuation.
In the movie Michael cries when Hanna is convicted while in the book he keeps repeating that he is feeling nothing as he is watching the trial.
I liked the book but I definately liked the movie better. And yes there was ALOT of sex. Much more than described in the book.
I finished The Time Travelers Wife for 5.4
Stats
Number of Books Read: 13/35
Number of Pages Read: 5130/14421
Challenges Completed: 13/27
Total Points: 140
I just finished this book. I skimmed everybody's posts but didn't fully read them. If I overlap don't hate me.
I really loved the writing style and didn't have a problem understanding the time traveling and dates and ages.
I ended up giving it 5 stars but struggled between giving it 4. I really connected with Henry and Clare. I felt very deeply for these characters throughout the majority of the book. I loved their interactions through Clare's childhood but by the end of the book there was a disconnect for me. I felt like in the end I should have cried but I didn't. I felt alot for Alba, I really liked her character, and I cried for her but I didn't really feel for Clare or Henry near the end.
But the scene at the museaum where Henry meets Alba for the first time was heart wrenching. I felt to bad for Clare.
Jessica wrote: "Felina wrote: "Tara wrote: "I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?"
Is it weird that I really w..."
Ha ha. I hope it doesn't reverse your wish. I always say that if I ever find a genie who can grant wishes the first one will be that I don't have to sleep, that my body doesn't need it but I can if I want. People think I'm crazy but I think its sounds awesome. You could have a full time job, go to school full time, watch movies and maybe finish Cynthia's Challenge. Hey wait, maybe Rosanne and the others who have finished the challenge have already found the genie.
That sounds really cute.
Mindy wrote: "Finally finished at 2 book task, 15.8 and I totally agreed with my first friend's review of the two books. I'm not a big Stephen King fan although I know many are. However, The Joy Luck Club was fa..."
Which King book did you read?
My Recent 5 Stars:
The Book Thief Thank you to the summer challenge because without it I probably would never have read this book.
The Time Traveler's Wife
I agree with you Tara. I think the betrayal they are talking about in the question is parent/child.
And I agree that this theme would be apparent in any situation that we look back on now as inappropriate or prejudice.
Example: My parents have a very different opinion on race issues than my grandparents and I have a very different opinion on gay rights than my parents do. I sometimes consider my parents 'conservative' views of gay rights to be a betrayal of any American's right to live and breath and love.
I do NOT want to get into a political debate here. Just posing an example of this theme in American culture and showing that it is not just something breed of German history.
Jessica wrote: "Completed 15.4. I read My Antonia by Willa Cather.
Point total: 235"
How did you like My Antonia? I read it in highschool and it was the only required read that I ever enjoyed.
I don't think 'love and betrayal between generations' is the central theme of this book so I'm having a hard time with this question.
Do I think that stories of relationships torn apart by war attrocities is a concept reserved for German history, no I do not. I bet there are just as many examples of this story in the Civil and Revolutionary Wars. In fact, I think that theme would be prevalent in any country or region that experienced any kind of civil war or social uprising.
Tara wrote: "I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?"
Is it weird that I really wish sleep was optional?
My next book will be either Outlander or The First Man in Rome. I can't decide.
