amazon.com:

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

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fürs meet-up

I've been wanting to get my hands on this for a while. Thanks a lot, lesezeichen! (As always :) )

One of the most amazing books I've ever read, probably; I'm still all dazzled, so I cannot be entirely sure if my enthusiasm will not diminish with time, but for now, what a wonderful book!!!
I hardly ever read romances, but this book and the love it tells about are so utterly different from the usual boy-meets-girl story that I am not even sure it qualifies as a romance proper.
Protagonist Henry is probably the first human to suffer from a genetic defect that makes him a time traveller; without much warning, he will often find himself stark naked in the past or future, for only a few moments or longer stretches of time, before he lapses back into his present. This condition enables him to meet his future wife, Clare, when she is a young child and he is a grown man (in "real" time, they are only a few years apart), and for Clare to have known an older Henry before they ever meet in their common present. Their story is a complicated and troubled one, and among its many facets will probably hold one or two that will have special significance for almost any reader. I found a lot in this book; I laughed, smiled, sighed and even shed a tear or two. I felt very rooted in my present (and my past), and re-assessed my releationships. I needed lots of hugs while I read this book -- though strikingly beautiful, it is not always easy.

I can't find many faults with the book; I liked the story, and its style as well. The only hair in the soup I can possibly come up with: the editing of this volume seems a bit sloppy; there are typos (especially in the occasional bits of German) and one or two small logical/factual mistakes (Henry's age at a given time). Still, nothing that lessened my enjoyment of the book, certainly not. A gem.

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Heute per Post auf den Weg zu Daine gebracht.

Übrigens: Lieber Nach-Leser, wenn Du mit dem Buch fertig bist und keine unmittelbaren weiteren Kandidaten mehr für dieses Buch hast, dann würden sich lesezeichen und julia---koelpin auch freuen, wenn sie es noch lesen könnten. (Habe ich leider erst erfahren, nachdem das Buch schon verpackt und die YAEB sicher zugeklebt war, deswegen die "Warteliste" an diesem etwas unorthodoxen Ort.)

I´ve heard so much about it, I simply have to take the chance to read it.
And I already made a note to remember me of the following readers ;o)

12.8.
Und seit heute unterwegs zum Nächsten.

Thanks daine for (re-)sending me the book and sorry for not making a journal entry earlier.

Well, originally I had discarded this book after reading a few pages but then kris was so enthousiastic about it and so I decided to give it another go... And I'm glad I did. The structure of the book which is marked by the time-travelling "concept" is an interesting idea, which enables us to view the relationship of Clare and Henry from various point of views (and which has nothing to do at all with SF). But the merits of this book do not stop here. The prose is very beautiful (someone recently said in the book-talk forum that a certain book sang to her) and the characters live. So thanks kris for your recommendation. It will be interesting to see what Ms. Niffenegger comes up with in her second book - this will be hard to beat...

So, das Buch geht weiter an lisa-b. Wenn Sie möchte, kann sie es nach ihrer Lektüre an MrBennet weiterschicken ;-) Was Julia angeht, habe ich sie erstmal "übergangen", da sie noch ca. 200 ungelesene bookcrossing-Bücher zu Hause hat...

Received today as part of an exchange, many thanks! After I've read it I'll give it to MrBennet, maybe at a meet-up in Darmstadt.

I liked the book very much, as the concept of the time-travels is very interesting, and as the author managed to develop the story bit by bit, sometimes taking the reader back and forth in time, and sometimes leaving the reader in real-time with the time-traveller's wife. Also I like it when a story is told from different perspectives.

I am mailing it to MrBennet. I hope you'll enjoy it!

The book has arrived some days ago - thanks a lot, Lisa-B!

Update 13.06.2006:
It's been some weeks ago that I've finished this wonderful book. It was my highlight read in 2006! The story is rather fancy, and on the first few pages I wondered if I'd really read this. But then I was captured and could hardly stop reading - it's beautifully written, too.

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I gave the book to a fellow bookcrosser - I couldn't just release it into the wild.

Received at the meetup. Thanks, MrBennett!

I can't believe I kept this gem on my shelf for years. I was hooked from the start and enjoyed every page of it. It 's a wonderful, fascinating book, not only a great love story, but the fancy idea of time-traveling really set it apart.

My favorite quote: "Sometimes I see an expression on Clare's face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something." (page 276)

Received with many thanks today. It will go on Mount TBR now though....
Thanks also very much for the fantasy postcard exclosed. That's exact the kind of card I really like!

I have finally read the book as it is perfect for my bookbox of family and relatives in the title. At first I found it a little weird but then I enjoyed it and the last pages were hard to read because my eyes were swimming in tears.
Tomorrow it will start travelling again and this will be in Buchbox - die lieben Verwandten I hope it will find another reader there.

I read this book in german

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Picked this up at the Uncon. This was my book in a favourites roundabout, however it has been stalled so I have picked this copy up as a replacement.

Link to original roundabout
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8275084/

Sending this on in the favourites roundabout.

And it has arrived. I have already read this book, but I don't mind reading it again.

Read again, this is what I said the first time I read it:
Just read. Very interesting. Time-traveling very well laid out. A little bit too long. But the ending... horrible! Why did it have to end like that?! I really hate it. (I'm not going to say anymore, don't want to spoil it for future readers.)

This is what I say now:
Still too long, but also more cumbersome and annoying. Didn't hate the end now, probably because I felt indifferent this time. Clare is just too perfect as is Henry.
Will send to BoekenTrol today.

Off to BoekenTrol.

Arrived safely in my mailbox today :-)
I already have a copy of this book, but it still sits on MTBR. So... I'll read this and pass it on. I'll combine the two lists of readers and see whom to send to.

Thanks for passing on, dutch-book!

I liked this book.
I think I liked it because it was such a very strange book. I have never read anything like this before, so I found my self actually being curious on how the story of Clare and Henry would develop.

What I did not like very much, were the almost too traditionally perfect characters. Clare as the woman who patiently wait for the man she loves, not even looking at others, but one time. And Henry as womanizer, bad man everyone Clare warns about not to get involved with.

The time travelling was well done in my opinion, altough in itself it was too long. What I did not like was the ending of the book, the loose end Alba and the huge leap in time that brings me, the reader there. Again, perfect Clare, living up to the conditions / circumstances that were laid out for her.

The three stars are for keeping me reading like I did, but it is not a book I would read for a second time.

Skiping karen07814 after no reations to PMs, this book is now on its way to marsala.
Safe travels 'little' book & happy reading, marsala!

Thank you boekentrol, this book arrived today. It's a book I've already read and really enjoyed. I'm not rereading it at the moment though, because of having enough book to read already. I'll send it on soon.

Of to the next reader in this favourite book roundabout.

Arrived a few days ago, but I haven't been online 'til now!

This is one of those books that I keep seeing on the shelves at work (I work in a charity shop), but have never actually got around to picking up a copy. I suppose this gives me an excuse to read it ;)

Thanks for sharing!