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'An understated and affecting hymn to the power of books' --Grazia, Lauren Laverne
haunting and thought-provoking graphic novel --Booktrust
`This is a story that tells us that what we read is who we are; reading is a fingerprint of our imagination. The Night Bookmobile will haunt you, and bewitch you, and break your heart the way the Grimm borthers did, and is particularly powerful now, in this time of library closure and funding cuts, as it pens a love letter to the transformative, transcending power of books.' --Bookmunch
haunting and thought-provoking graphic novel --Booktrust
`This is a story that tells us that what we read is who we are; reading is a fingerprint of our imagination. The Night Bookmobile will haunt you, and bewitch you, and break your heart the way the Grimm borthers did, and is particularly powerful now, in this time of library closure and funding cuts, as it pens a love letter to the transformative, transcending power of books.' --Bookmunch
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A haunting tale both of transcendence and the passion for books which features the evocative full-colour, pen-and-ink work of one of the world's most beloved storytellers.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful book that will ring true to avid readers...,
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This review is from: The Night Bookmobile (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful graphic novel about Alexandra, a girl who loves books and after a chance encounter with the Night Bookmobile, decides to become a librarian.The illustrations and wonderfully quirky and the simple story is moving and has a familiar feel for people who love reading. The book celebrates reading and libraries and a love of books. Whilst very different to The Time Travelers Wife, the feel of the story and the book is familiar. Book lovers and librarians will not be disappointed.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Interesting Tale Sabotaged By It's Brevity,
This review is from: The Night Bookmobile (Hardcover)
I wanted to really like this, I've enjoyed Audrey Niffenegger's other graphic works, but the second I saw the page count for this I felt worried. It's simply too short, what is here is really good and interesting, but when I'm shelling out for a hardcover comic I want it to last longer than thirty or forty minutes (and I'm someone who takes it slow and salivates over artwork, woe be tide the speed reader).The story itself I thought fascinating (and after hearing Niffenegger talk about it I'm eager for the proposed sequels), it is a haunting tale of one person's love of books, something we can all share in quite easily. From an art stand point I thought it really nice, I read an awful lot of mainstream comics, where stories can often have teams of people working on them and extensive use of digital technology. So to read this, something that is entirely done by Niffenegger herself was refreshing. Personally I loved the hand lettering, it's something that's easy to forget, but graphic storytelling is pretty much the only place that a writer's own handwriting is on display (though mainstream comics use professional letters, the same applies when it's done by hand and not digitally). Her style throughout is highly expressive and often a joy to look at. This features an afterword and acknowledgments, I would have loved a prose copy of the original short story that this adapted from, if only to extend the read time here.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
When you discover yourself by reading,
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This review is from: The Night Bookmobile (Hardcover)
The first time I spotted that comic book, I didn't believe it at first that somebody ever wrote about bookmobiles in such a pleasant and mysterious way. Indeed, this story, which is the first part of a big project called The Library, shows a woman that rediscovers everything that she ever read and made her what she is in a bookmobile. From that moment, this single encounter changes the course of her life, for better and for worse.Now this comic book's origin comes from a novella the author published in Zoetrope All Story, so you will find that the story mixes both the original text and the author's paintings. Sometimes it works well, but at other times, I felt that some of the text could have been removed or trimmed, so to let the images and panels speak for themselves. As for the paintings themselves, they have a very modern touch that works well with the story and adds a great atmosphere. As such, I think the author could have better balanced her text and her images. Apart from that, I still felt that certain characters could have been better developed like the main character's boyfriend, whose last actions could have been shown to us instead of being told through the text. As such, I felt that this comic book could have been the occasion for the author to enrich her story with more details and situations than in her original novella. Nevertheless, I think that this book was a pleasure to read and I recommend it to anybody who knows a librarian who works in a library or in a bookmobile.
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