Currently Reading: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Understandably being a guy, I don't often read romances. I'm more of a Sci-fi kind of person. This book manages to be both, and the author weaves a convincing tale that is both very amusing and engaging.

Time-Travel is always a hard subject to write about. There are always the 'What If's' to think about, and the eventual paradoxes. Sometimes these paradoxes are part of the plot, and sometimes they're left unmentioned as part of a plot hole due to sloppy writing. The author acknowledges and even makes fun of them by having the main character meet up with himself multiple times and even having chats with him.

It's the story of a man, Henry DeTamble, with a disorder he describes as very few people having; the ability to slip out of time at a moment's notice, stress being the trigger. When he travels, he loses his clothes; he is naked and in search of new attire. This causes complications, especially if someone catches sight of him.

His time-travelling is mostly to places he's already been in the past, where he meets his future wife, Clare Abshire when she is a child. Romance builds between these visits, until she's old enough to marry.

It's certainly an interesting premise, and one that holds a lot of promise and humour. If Back to the Future was a time-travelling classic of the 80's, then this is the time-travelling classic of the 2000's.

There's a movie in production, and it remains to be seen how it's handled, but I'm looking forward to it.