Time Traveler's Wife

Finished The Time Traveler's Wife and had discussion today.  Because of bad weather we only had a couple of people.  We talked some about the movie vs the book.  There were some minor plot changes, except that (I am told - I haven't seen the movie) it seems that his mother's accident is caused by Henry's disappearing instead of Henry disappearing to save himself, as in the book.

I was particularly struck by the circularity of everything.  Henry began time traveling, then his older self visited his younger self and taught him how to stay alive when he showed up naked & hungry in another time.  We noticed that Henry didn't visit Clare as a child until after he had met Clare as an adult.  The scientific explanation of Henry's condition gave verisimilitude to the story.  Amazing that Niffenegger thought to make the Chrono-whatever condition genetic, and one that was known & accepted during Alba's (their daughter's) lifetime.

Chronologically, the story follows Clare's "normal" timeline when they are together.  Some of Henry's sections take on the tone of flashbacks through use of past vs present tense.

Worth a read.

Now reading Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein, her newest.  Alex Cooper is the Sex Crimes ADA for New York (Manhattan), working with Mike Chapman, a prosecutor's investigator, and Mercer Wallace, a police detective, to investigate sex crimes.  In this case, a young woman is murdered, dumped in the porch of a Harlem Baptist church, and set afire.  I enjoy Fairstein.  It's like a more complicated Law & Order.

I'll let you know.

Still planning to read In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip.