take a back seat, hitchhike

In retrospect, mission trip was good, or better than what I felt going through it. I don't have much to say, almost everything is jotted down in my black Moleskine already. I like it kept that way- personal.

I love that Sunday night at the loft, snuggling under a duvet and reading a book. The book then was The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger. I didn't read it earlier when I saw it in Sec2 because the review drew a comparison between it and 'The Lovely Bones' which I didn't particularly like then and can't be bothered to re-read it now. The Time Traveler's Wife starts off promising but the between is draggy, a slightly banal means to an end. And the ending is of course, highly anticipated since the premise of time travelling is fascinating in itself. I suppose the premise is one reason why the book manages to sustain interest even in the boring segments because it keeps readers wondering about the possibilities and intricacies of time travel. It helps that Audrey Niffeneger cleverly chose strategic points to insert characteristics of time travel, instead of laying the basis right at the beginning. With a flimsy topic like time travel, Audrey Niffeneger managed to tie in a solid believable storyline which I imagine to be loose ends of thread (or timelines) meeting at points in space, all of which become wrapped into a ball of yarn very nicely towards the end.

Authorial presence is very much alive in this book, especially since Audrey Niffeneger is an artist and so is Clare. I don't suppose any other writer without artist background can paint such a beautiful picture in describing sculpture making and the materials required. However the excessive description of dreams did not add value to the book and gives one the feeling of autobiographical rantings on Audrey Niffeneger's part.