{"id":4260,"date":"2009-08-28T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2009-08-25T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:15:06","slug":"the-night-bookmobile-by-audrey-niffenegger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-night-bookmobile-by-audrey-niffenegger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that many librarians have a love affair with Audrey Niffenegger&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|636878\">The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (case in point, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/2009\/08\/the-armchair-traveler-traveling-through-time\/\">Lynn just blogged about it<\/a><\/strong> and here I am blogging about it again). This is mostly due to the book&#8217;s bookiness&#8211;it is swelling with libraries, librarians, book artists and historical typefaces. Lucky for us, Ms. Niffenegger seems to have a love affair with Libraries, and thus continued her theme of bookiness in a graphic story titled <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/may\/31\/nightbookmobile\">The Night Bookmobile<\/a><\/strong><\/em> published in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/strong>last Autumn. The story revolves around a young woman who stumbles onto a bookmobile that holds every bibliofile&#8217;s deepest desire and a very personal collection of books:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/may\/31\/nightbookmobile#zoomed-picture\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/may\/31\/nightbookmobile#zoomed-picture\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4253\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bookmobile1.jpg?resize=460%2C355&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bookmobile\" width=\"460\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bookmobile1.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bookmobile1.jpg?resize=300%2C231&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find out what magic this bookmobile holds by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/may\/31\/nightbookmobile\">reading it online via The Guardian<\/a><\/strong> or keeping your fingers crossed that a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=the+night+bookmobile&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">book version<\/a> <\/strong>will be published in the US next fall!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Audrey Niffenegger&#8217;s newest novel, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2151311\">Her Fearful Symmetry<\/a><\/strong>, comes out at the end of September so better hurry and get your reserve on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that many librarians have a love affair with Audrey Niffenegger&#8217;s The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife (case in point, Lynn just blogged about it and here I am blogging about it again). This is mostly due to the book&#8217;s bookiness&#8211;it is swelling with libraries, librarians, book artists and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-night-bookmobile-by-audrey-niffenegger\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,6],"tags":[785,788,786,787],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-staff-picks","category-websites","tag-audrey-niffenegger","tag-bibliofile","tag-bookmobile","tag-graphic-novel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-16I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}