I really liked Audrey Niffenegger’s first book, The Time Traveler’s Wife, in large part because I felt like Niffenegger had been given the space and freedom to indulge herself and write something big, romantic and…
Posts tagged Audrey Niffenegger
Things that read in the night
Audrey Niffenegger has a good thing going on with her lobes. In her graphic novel The Night Bookmobile — which walks like a children’s book, but certainly doesn’t talk like one, Alexandra goes out for…
Wonder twin powers, activate
Phew. I think we can all collectively agree that we were a little nervy when we heard Audrey Niffenegger had a new novel. Readers, at least the ones I like to talk to, are a…
The Swan Thieves
By all accounts, I should have really liked Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves. That makes the fact that it's a wretched failure all the more disappointing. The Swan Thieve, Kostova's second novel, begins with the…
A Fine Romance
I'll say this for Audrey Niffenegger; she's got courage. The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger's novel about the relationship between a mortal woman and an involuntary time traveler, goes so far beyond clich? it circles back…
Four upcoming releases that make a booknerd’s heart race
When you live in Minnesota, you don’t like to wish the summer away. We all know that soon enough it’ll be so cold your eyes weep the minute you step outside. That being said, I…
The Gargoyle is the new Time Traveler’s Wife (that’s a good thing)
Andrew Davidson’s debut novel The Gargoyle, is the kind of book that gives me nextbookaphobia. This is a condition marked by great fear of starting a new book because there is no way that it…