What is Throwback Thursday?
I’ve noticed several of these meme on a few book blogs. For example, Susan Loves Books does one, which is (or was originally) hosted by Renee@It’s Book Talk. I also noticed that another fellow blogger, Lorrea @ What ‘Cha Readin’?, was doing this as a monthly meme for her blog. Then there’s Reading Maria who is doing something called “Last Year I Was Reading” where she compares what she’s reading now to what she read a year ago. Finally, recently I noticed that Susan Osborn over at A Life in Books is doing a series of posts called “Blasts from the Past“. In most instances, they use this to share one of their favorite reads or older reviews. Lorrea is doing it for books she enjoyed over the last decade. I also just noticed that Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies was doing what she calls Flashback Friday, and I hope she’s still doing them! UPDATE: another blogger, Kristin Craves Books just started what she calls #ThrowbookThursday, which I thought would be about books I’d like to throw against the wall, but is actually just back list books! There’s also Susan @ A Life In Books, with her Blast from the Past posts, which are reviews of books read and loved, from before she started blogging.
I really like all of these ideas and am essentially stealing it from ALL of them, but with my own twists.
My Twists/Instructions:
- The Chocolate Lady’s #ThrowbackThursday takes place on the Thursday before the first Saturday of every month (i.e., the Thursday before my monthly #6Degrees post).
- My posts will highlight one of my previously published book reviews, and I encourage other participants to do the same.
- If you want to participate but have a new blog that doesn’t have old reviews to highlight, you are encouraged to write a post about anything old that strikes your fancy!
- If you want to tweet or share this post, or someone else’s post, or the reviews being highlighted, please use #ThrowbackThursday!
- Please add the link to your post to the link party, below.
- Please link back to this page on your post.
So… with no further ado, I give you…
The Chocolate Lady’s Throwback Thursday Book Review #24
Take the Time to Travel with This Book!
My Book Review for “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger.
My review starts thusly:
“This is such a well-known book it is almost redundant to bother summarizing the plot – especially since they made a movie out of it (which I refused to watch). However, for the uninformed, this is the story of Claire and Henry. Claire is an ordinary girl but Henry has a genetic condition. No, he isn’t dying, he just sometimes disappears, only to show up at another time and place in his own life – either his past or his future. When Claire first meets Henry, he was 36 and she was six, and this is their love story.“
Click here to read the rest of this review!
If you like this idea, and want to do your own Throwback Thursday post, please put the link in the comments below.
If you have your own Throwback Thursday or any other type of nostalgia post, you can let me know about your blog post in this link party below. (You can also just post a link to an old review you want us to look at, without making a separate post.) I’ll keep this link party open until my next #ThrowbackThursday post (scheduled for March 3, 2022).
My sisters both loved this book so I am not sure why I never got to it. I wonder if it would work on audio? Sometimes books with flashbacks or shifting time frames do not translate well.
Constance
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Thanks for the invite to the #LinkParty. I hope I did this right! I love the idea and the other blogs you’ve mentioned in your post.
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That’s fine. If you would like, next time you might want to add a line to your post noting that it is being highlighted as a #ThrowbackThursday post, but it isn’t necessary!
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I haven’t read it yet. I had reservations about it, so now on my way to your review
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This is a lovely blast from my own reading past, a book that lived up to the hype surrounding it. Thanks so much for the link!
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I’ve been doing ThrowbackThursday for a while now, just do then whenever there is a Thursday when I have no otther post.
I also have read The Trime Traveller’s Wife but I doubt you will see it in this category on my blog. LOL
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That’s great! I’d be thrilled if you wanted to link your TT posts to my link party.
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Done. As I said on my post, I’ll link up my post whenever you’re doing this, even though I throwback every Thursday at the moment. So much to catch up with.
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Excellent!
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So many people love this one!
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I don’t much care for time travel novels, but for some reason this one was good.
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