{"id":163,"date":"2007-07-10T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2007\/07\/10\/andrew\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T18:25:00","slug":"andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually post about books here, but I need to send out thanks to my NorCal buddy Madame Liederhosen who sent me the book The Time Traveler’s Wife
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I’ve been in a very weird zone for the last 36 hours since finishing the book.<\/p>\n

I know I’m far from the first to be affected by the book…the word “haunting” comes to mind…and maybe it’s just because I recently turned 40 and that age seems to be something of a turning point in the book, but, there’s something else too.<\/p>\n

Part of the book is taking on the problem of fate and free-will. Part of it is just a rockin’ love story. My personal weirdness is with the latter. I’m down with fate\/free-will.<\/p>\n

See…I’m one of the lucky ones. I married the man I was supposed to marry–not that there weren’t some great guys along the way (there were) but I wasn’t supposed to marry them. I think they would agree.<\/p>\n

So, knowing that I’m one of the few, and feeling the affects of age, and now reading this (truly wonderful book) I’m reminded quite viscerally that every time this man I love gets onto an airplane I’m pretty-well terrified until he’s back home with me.<\/p>\n

His grandmother used to admonish the family not to talk about being happy or lucky too loud for fear the evil eye would take it all away from them. It’s something akin to that.<\/p>\n

And the weird funk isn’t because we’re “so much like Henry and Clare”–we’re not (though he does<\/span> run every day, and he does dance as though<\/span> he were in a mosh pit), but we’re also the same ages now that they were at the end of the book, born roughly the same years (she’s younger than I) and so we shared much of the same cultural markers, etc.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

It’s a great book.
Everyone should read it.<\/p>\n

And mostly, I’d be really interested to hear how it affected you, since it really, really<\/span> affected me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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