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A review by girliekatie
Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking
2.0
So, I tried reading this couple of years ago and DNFed. I got lost in Jane's storytelling and hated how sometimes she skipped a storyline to tell another story in the middle of a different one. And I didn't yet know about the other problems with the book.
This time I actually finished it. And omg! I just couldn't stand Jane from beginning to end. I can appreciate that it is extremely hard to take care of a family of five on your own because your children are too young to help and your husband is disabled. Also, I can imagine that living with Stephen would have been challenging as well. However, Jane appeared to have absolutely no self-awareness. She kept whining about the ordeal of their everyday life, not realising that other people go through most of her everyday problems too without the privileges she had. Also, I just couldn't believe how naive she was with the whole Jonathan thing. Okay, I understand they did not have sex while she was still with Stephen but than again it wasn't as innocent as she kept repeating. I was not at all surprised when Stephen left with one of his nurses... Throughout their life they simply lost their marriage, pushed it aside just for their patient-nurse roles to become much more prominent. And that was the biggest mistake they could have made.
This time I actually finished it. And omg! I just couldn't stand Jane from beginning to end. I can appreciate that it is extremely hard to take care of a family of five on your own because your children are too young to help and your husband is disabled. Also, I can imagine that living with Stephen would have been challenging as well. However, Jane appeared to have absolutely no self-awareness. She kept whining about the ordeal of their everyday life, not realising that other people go through most of her everyday problems too without the privileges she had. Also, I just couldn't believe how naive she was with the whole Jonathan thing. Okay, I understand they did not have sex while she was still with Stephen but than again it wasn't as innocent as she kept repeating. I was not at all surprised when Stephen left with one of his nurses... Throughout their life they simply lost their marriage, pushed it aside just for their patient-nurse roles to become much more prominent. And that was the biggest mistake they could have made.