Librarian + Time Travel + Wife = Beautiful Love Story
When I last saw my redheaded friend, she suggested I read The Time Traveler’s Wife based on it being a cool science fiction book coupled with a terrific love story. I was surprised to learn in the course of the book the main character, the time traveler, is a librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago because I don’t remember her mentioning that to me. It seems that when people recommend books to me with librarians in them, they often frame it as “Oh, you should read this book with a librarian in it … and the story is about … ” not “Here’s this cool book you should read because … and a character is a librarian.” So here I am using the character who’s a librarian as an excuse to mention this book on this blog about librarianship. I suppose I’m also surprised that I hadn’t heard of (or maybe it’s just that I don’t remember) this book’s connection to librarianship because of the numerous discussions about books with librarians as characters or the other times I’ve heard people mention this book. (It was, after all, a morning program’s book club pick {or so the cover tells me}.)
Anyway … I think it’s a great read. The librarian marries a papermaker, so there’s a bit of discussion about that art form, too. The story hooked me early on. The time traveling element is really cool. There’s a lot of humor and a bit of sadness. Despite it being 500+ pages (I don’t read that many books that are 500+ pages), I didn’t find it to be too long. (Mind you, I’ve read some 200 page books that seemed too long …)
The redhead loves to read; and, I’ve learned she has great taste in books.
