BOOK REVIEW: The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

TITLE: The Night Bookmobile

 

BY: Audrey Niffenegger

GENRE: Adult graphic novel

PUBLISHED: 2010

PAGES: 40

STARS: 1 out of 5

                                                 **THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**

             This book was a MAJOR disappointment for me. I honestly can't believe an author would write such a book - Where a person can be so obsessed with books that she kills herself. To back up, I LOVE Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife - It is one of my all-time favorite books and I highly recommend it. I also enjoyed, but not nearly as much her other novel, The Fearful Symmetry. HOWEVER, I can't believe she wrote The Night Bookmobile AND the book had so much promise at the beginning.

It is the first half of the book that I even gave it 1 stars, It had such good promise. I was LOVING the premise of the story - A mysterious bookmobile that only shows up sporadically and when you least expect it from dusk to dawn. This book houses all the materials that the patron has very read, including personal diaries. It was mysterious, fun and she wanted to work at the bookmobile. It was so inspiration and really felt like my own story - she ends up going to library school and being a real library, but still seeks at the mysterious night bookmobile.

THEN the story crashes - she becomes so obsessed she kills herself (she does end a relationship early in book because of obsession, but I was able to forgive that) - THEN, AND only THEN  is she able to be the librarian for the Night Bookmobile - see only the decreased can run the bookmobile and they are assigned there own patrons.

On top of all this, the graphic are horrible and poorly drawn. The second time she sees the night bookmobile the story states it's in a McDonald's parking lot in Chicago (of the fact that it took place in Chicago was kind of cool); however the picture showed it in front of Wrigley Stadium and NO McDee's any where to be found.

 SO....morals of story - DON'T BECOME SO OBSESSED WITH BOOKS THAT YOU KILL YOURSELF

                                  - BOOK OBSESSION CAN OVERCOME YOUR LIFE AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT YOUR BOOKS

                                  - ACHIEVING ONES GOAL OF BECOMING A LIBRARIAN ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH - YOU MUST BE THE ULTIMATE LIBRARIAN

                                   - BOOK LOVERS CAN NOT HOLD RELATIONSHIPS OR JOBS BECAUSE OF THEIR OBSESSION - LET'S TALK ABOUT CRAZY BOOK LADY

Sorry, Niffenegger - I'm not buying it !!