The TIme Traveler's Wife

I rarely rave about books, but this one I certainly cannot let pass.

The Time Traveler's Wife is the most unusual love story I've ever read. It's a testament to how love transcends time-- It's about a husband who's ill with a genetic disease that causes him to time-travel, as in plucked out of real-time and dumped sometime in his past. He can reappear as a 15-yr-old, as a 28-yr-old or as a 40-yr-old. He meets his wife back when she was a kid. As a result, she's loved him practically all her life-- waiting for the point in 'real-time' when they meet and fall in love. I love how the story takes time out of love's equation, proving in a queer, out-of-the-box manner that love does win above everything. Being in a time-bound body does not mean your love is bound to it as well.

The letter at the end is my favorite part of all.

"Stop waiting and be free. Of me--put me deep inside you and then go out in the world and live. Love the world and yourself in it. Move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element. I have given you a life of suspended animation. And I don't mean to say that you have done nothing. You have created beauty, and meaning, in your art, .... and for me: for me you have been everything...

I love you, always. Time is nothing."

Sigh... I love it, I love it, I love it! :)