I am happy to say that my Real Estate business keeps me fairly busy. What I am not happy to say is that that can leave little time for one of my favorite activities: reading.
I have always been an avid reader. In fact, I got a Master's Degree in what basically amounts to reading (it was French lit, brag, brag....). So, it was essentially my job - for a time - to read. 
In that spirit, I joined our neighborhood book club. I was looking for suggestions outside of my regular James Patterson/John Grisham/Dan Brown realm. Nowadays, a book really has to grab me so I can finish it before it's due back at the library. (This is why I usually buy books instead of borrow them, but that's another post)
Which leads me to have read The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I admit that I am a little behind, as it was published in 2003 and has long since been made into a movie. In fact, I had resisted it, being under the assumption that it would be contritely sappy and overly girlie.
Not so. It is cleverly written, intelligently crafted. It's a love story, to be sure, but it is so unconventional that it almost defies being labeled as a love story.
Henry DeTamble involuntarily travels through time due to some genetic defect, and Clare Abshire is the object of his affection. Clare lives in natural sequential time. It is at once hilarious and heartbreaking, frolicsome and gutwrenching. I found the dialogue to be witty and the story to be absolutely absorbing. I'm not going to go into too much detail at the risk of giving too much away. I feel this book needs to be experienced by the reader themselves.
If you haven't yet done so, take the time to read this one!
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