false 26855732 254011 14050 0156032872 9780965818674 16821 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14050.The_Time_Traveler_s_Wife 4.03 120149 The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself periodically displaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

The Time Traveler's Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other, as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals - steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.]]> 498072 4.01 137427 21759 4 0 false Thu Dec 04 12:00:53 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 10 09:25:51 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 12:00:53 -0800 2008
"Um, mostly non-fiction." ... "I've been re-reading 'The Time Traveler's Wife' lately."

"Really? Re-reading you say? I found it to be horribly overwritten, really suffering from writer's workshop, first novelism." And M knows of what she speaks, being the first line in defense for the rest of us against those first novels.

I think I valiantly pulled together a justification based on the 2nd half of the novel -- mediations on the tragedy of the mundane, love as loss, and such.

But really its just a pleasant little book, intriguing male lead, kind of sexy at times, a handful of accute insights into relationships, especially with an artist. And not too demanding.

Its not a *good* book, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good read.]]>