Flipping Reversed Roles!

I have to say that I absolutely FLIPPED for this book. The characters, Bryce and Juli come to life in the novel. Well they may be a bit over the top, but their hearts are in the right place. Now Bryce starts to like the annoying girl Juli, whom he has hated for countless years. Juli reaches a new state of mind when thinking of Bryce too, she stops liking him. Now the roles are flipped again, but what will happen this time? Juli cannot forget about her sycamore tree which she loved, and Bryce ignored her, and threw away the eggs Juli gave him. Now Byce cannot foget about Juli adn her passion for everything that she loves. This just reminds me of elementary days and how people can change and mature from their younger years and figure out that people are not always as amazing or as bad as they may have seemed

Deppilf (read to understand)

Actually it's Flipped, the story of two kids grwoing up from the second grade to the end of grade eight. This is a story I used to read over and over again when I was younger. Bryce, a blonde boy with blue eyes moves across the street from his worst nightmare, Juli. Not only is she annoying and living behind him as a shadow, she just does not know how to take a hint. Then in every other chapter we see the novel's viewpoint from Juli's point of view. She thinks Bryce has dreamy blue eyes, and one day he will have the courage to come up to her and give her a first kiss. Well from his point of view that will never happen and he did absolutely everything to avoid her. But she thinks that he is just to shy to talk to the exciting self that is Juli, but the reader knows that this was not the case. Grade eight comes, and suddenly things get flipped.

A Strange Man

Things get more complicated by the fact that many, probably most, of Henry's ventures in time are more unexpected. Henry turns out to be known to the Chicago police as a odd man who likes to walk around in alleys with no clothing on. His co-workers in The Newberry Library think of him as a strange guy who occasionally disappears but usually leaves a pile of clothing behind. Henry learns to steal clothing form clothes lines, pick pockets, defend himself from attackers, and break into any sort of locked building. He gets pretty good at this, and actually ends up teaching his young self (whom he occasionally visits) how to do these things. That's how far I have gotten in the novel, but things seem to be getting more and more difficult.

An Untimely Encounter

Luckily for Henry, all this travelling in time takes him to a meadow in the woods just out of sight of the Michigan home of this cute, smart, little girl named Clare. This is a meadow in which Clare likes to play alone. The first time the strange 30 something year old naked man appears out of nowhere in the meadow, she is young enough to not be put off. These encounters had a bit of a relationship to develop. Eventually, they fall in love (actually, she falls in love with him, he is already married to her). Since he always travels around in time, he has figured out most of the times he will arrive in the meadow. Accordingly Clare has a list of dates and times, and makes sure there is a stash of clothing, food, and drink for her him.

Controlling Time?

Henry meets his wife Clare Abshire, when he is 28 years old, in 1991. She is a few years younger. They get married and are very much in love until one of them eventually dies. Now this may sound kind of boring, but there's more. He is from a humble background consisting of two artist parents, and she is of a very wealthy background with a father who is a lawyer and a neurotic mother. Her family lives in Michigan, in a big house in a wealthy space. The actual interesting part is that Henry has an unusual disorder that causes him to occasionally travel in time. It is hard for him to know when the time travel will happen, he cannot stop it or control it, though he learns that certain things make it less or more likely to happen. He gets a bit sick, dizzy, then suddenly he is somewhere else and, and at some other time with nothing, no clothing, no possessions, only his intelligence.