Chaos Ren Ren থেকে Kandarpapur, West Bengal 721301, India থেকে Kandarpapur, West Bengal 721301, India

I started this book and then dumped my boyfriend. So then I put it down for 2 weeks before I picked it up again, because I was afraid it would be far too... lovey. And yeah, it kind of was, but it was still a good read, an easy February read like The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, which I cracked out shortly after finishing The Time Traveler's Wife. It's a good Chicago book, I guess. As a fake Chicagoan, I can only pretend to know so much, though, so I guess I can't fairly make that assessment. Uh, spoiler alert? What struck me in particular about TTTW were the multiple, painful miscarriages Claire suffers. As a recent convert to relative adulthood and having even more recently surprised myself with a panic attack based on the thought, "Oh my God, what if I can't have children?", these scenes hit hard, fast, close and real. There are a lot of colors in this book, and nowhere are they as real as in these scenes. Though the future is made apparent midway through the miscarriages, they matter a great deal. With the explicit gimmick of ::poof! I'm off to 1973!:: having long worn off, the present is a painful place to stay, and Ms. Niffenwhatsit keeps you there. Snaps for that.