40 - The Unnamed

Finished The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris.

This is one of those books I didn't really want to read (because it sounded very weird) but I kept reading good review after good review (including one that compared it to The Time Traveler's Wife, in that there's this married couple very much in life who are forced to be apart a great deal of the time due to husband's weird disease--and if this is you, please tell me so I can credit you because you're the one who finally convinced me to read this book).

(Updated: Mystery solved! It was Michelle, with this post!)

Anyway. Tim and Jane are very much in love, but Tim has this disease that, every so often, forces him to walk. So he basically will walk for hours and hours until finally his body can't walk anymore and he basically collapses and sleeps. Not surprisingly, this wreaks some havoc on his marriage (and his relationship with his daughter, Becka).

So I bet you can see why I was like, "Yes, this is not my kind of book at all," right? Because it sounds just really strange. But it's so good! It's oddly sweet and definitely worth reading.

So that's the power of book blogging, I guess--getting people to read books they wouldn't normally read by saying, "But it's kind of like The Time Traveler's Wife!"