Chantel Simmons

For years, everyone has been telling me to read The Time Traveller’s Wife. But I never wanted to. I can’t explain it. I just didn’t. I’ve had friends lend me the book, only for me to get home and remember someone else already lent it to me.  I’ve had others “forget” it at my house, trying to get me to read it. And I’ve had other friends who lend it to me against my will and won’t accept it back until I’ve read it. At one point I had so many copies of the book on my bookshelf that I had to start asking friends every time I saw them if I had their copy. Or if they wanted a copy. I don’t know what’s wrong with me or why I never wanted to read it, but I just didn’t.

Actually, I do know. I thought that the couple was going to be old and the plot plodding and the story hard to get into and hard to follow. I thought it was going to be sci-fi. I really dislike science fiction.

Then, three things happened:

1. I made the decision to take advantage of my break between edits on Love Struck  to read more in an attempt to keep up with my addiction to buying books faster than I can read them, and;

2. I saw the movie poster for The Time Traveller’s Wife and saw that Rachel McAdams is in it. I really love her. And the movie looks so good that I feel I would be so sad if I saw it because then I would definitely not be able to go back and read the book afterward.

3. I opened the book and read the first page. And I was hooked.

I’m now about 1/4 into the book and loving it. Unfortunately, I just received the copyedited version of Love Struck from my editor in my inbox tonight. Which is amazing because it means that my editor, who I love, and the copyeditor, have done such a good job that we’re now ahead of schedule. What it also means is that I now have to read over my novel and  The Time Traveller’s Wife in the next week before the movie comes out. How am I going to do it? If only I could stop time.

Maybe I do believe in science fiction after all…

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