TESL Book Club: Improve your english at home

Interested in improving your vocabulary or reading comprehension with out getting a sitter or giving up your evening?

Join our Monthly Book Club For adults. You can read the books on your Kindle or Ibooks or Listen to the audiobook to improve vocabulary and language comprehension.

Just follow along and answer the questions or start a discussion here in the comments.

on Dec 1, I will post some answers and my ideas about the book. I am excited to hear and respond to your ideas and responses to the questions below.

You can Read it or download and listen to it, as an audiobook here

This month's book is The Time Travelers Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

Movie Version

Discussion Questions

1. In The Time Traveler’s Wife, the characters meet each other at various times during their lifetime. How does the author keep all the timelines in order and “on time”?

2. Although Henry does the time traveling, Clare is equally impacted. How does she cope with his journeys and does she ultimately accept them?

3. How does the writer introduce the reader to the concept of time travel as a realistic occurrence? Does she succeed?

4. Henry’s life is disrupted on multiple levels by spontaneous time travel. How does his career as a librarian offset his tumultuous disappearances? Why does that job appeal to Henry?

5. Henry and Clare know each other for years before they fall in love as adults. How does Clare cope with the knowledge that at a young age she knows that Henry is the man she will eventually marry?

6. The Time Traveler’s Wife is ultimately an enduring love story. What trials and tribulations do Henry and Clare face that are the same as or different from other “normal” relationships?

7. How does their desire for a child affect their relationship?

8. The book is told from both Henry and Clare’s perspectives. What does this add to the story?

9. Do you think the ending of the novel is satisfactory?

10. Though history there have been dozens of mediums used for time travel in literature. Please site examples and compare The Time Traveler’s Wife to the ones with which you are familiar.
(Questions issued by publisher.)

 

Fun Questions

If you were born a time traveler, would you enjoy knowing what your future holds? Explain why.



If, like Alba, you could choose where to time travel to, where would you go and why?

How might being a time traveler change your priorities in life and why?

Thanks for joining me this month Read and discuss below. I can't wait to hear from you.