Night Bookmobile

Night Bookmobile
by
Audrey Niffenegger
graphic novel

*For mature audiences*.

Follow Lexi in her creepy, haunting love affair with books and reading. The author says that this book was based upon some dreams she has had of books, reading, and bookmobiles.
As I read it, I was thinking "I would like THIS page to hang on my wall. No. How about THIS page! I could see a librarian decorating her cubicle or maybe her home bathroom walls with the pages of this book. It is a book for book lovers.

Here is the plot: Lexi loves books. She encounters the Night Bookmobile one night in her dreams (or maybe in reality). The bookmobile holds all of the books and papers and newspapers and magazines and school papers and cereal boxes that she has ever read. Oh, the delight of reading! Oh, the delight of remembering a good book!
I won't tell you more because I don't want to ruin the ending, but this book is a feast.

This is a good gift book and coffee table book for a librarian, teacher, English teacher, writer, etc.

Don't be surprised if your friends and family start calling you "Mr. Openshaw" in honor of the bookmobile librarian.

I hope I can get a sweatshirt or something with one of the pictures from the book on it.

Night Bookmobile

Night Bookmobile
by
Audrey Niffenegger
graphic novel?

This is not yet available in the U. S., but I look forward to reading it soon. The cover and title show promise...

Her Fearful Symmetry

Her Fearful Symmetry
by
Audrey Niffenegger
adult fantasy/romance contemporary fiction

Many people (including myself) were waiting for another book from this author of "The Time Traveler's Wife". It starts off innocently enough with an aunt dying and leaving her flat in London to her twin nieces whom she has never met. From there the plot takes some twists as we find out more about the mother (who was a twin to the aunt) and about the goings on at the flat and the cemetery next door. There is a housebound neighbor and a cemetery volunteer neighbor. Add to the mixture The Kitten of Death (who is not at all terrifying).
This book is one part Gothic novel, one part stodgy British literature, one part Victoria Holt romance, one part Charlotte Bronte angst-riddled tale, and one part Phyllis Whitney mystery (except that it is set in modern times). Now I realize that I have dated myself with references to 1970's authors. So be it.
I wasn't sure what to expect in this book. I'll give away a major plot point - it is a ghost novel. It is a cozy, familiar read with a standard mystery setting, best enjoyed in front of a fireplace while wearing a smoking jacket and sipping Earl Grey tea.
As to the title - it is a clever play on words about twins being mirrors of each other and also using a word that sounds like "cemet'ry".
In a completely unrelated note, I will put this book on my list of books for genealogists to enjoy. Cemeteries are an essential part of any genealogist's research and Highgate Cemetery has some mighty fine tales to tell.