MixedThe Boston GlobeAudrey Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, at turns playful, wearisome, and moving, chronicles the efforts of Henry, a librarian, and Clare, an artist, to build a stable life together despite the unending threat of separation and loss ... the characters' accounts of the normal rites of passage — dating, friendships, family visits, engagement, planning their wedding — is like flipping through a photo album; the activities recounted are not remarkable, but we feel privy to someone's intimate, precious memories ... At its most touching, the novel is a hymn to the pleasures of the ordinary and tangible, the sensuousness of the here and now ... The Time Traveler's Wife can be an exasperating read, but as a love story it has its appeal.
