Okay, so this blog kind of started off being something 'serious' which I really wanted to contain things to do with librarianship so I could remember what I'd been up to. I now realise that this is probably the purpose of a CV. Hmph.
So, it's the Easter Holidays at the moment, I'm home alone and have heaps of time on my hands. So I went to the Library (relevant, see!) and picked out lots of books I've not had time to read lately. I am currently getting into comics and graphic novels and today I picked up two. One was a Modesty Blaise which is awesome - gotta love a feisty female protagonist - and the other was The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger.
*Spoilers!*
The gist of the story is that Alexandra (Lexi) comes across the Night Bookmobile in the early hours of the morning after having a row with her boyfriend. On the bus she finds allll the books she has ever read in her entire life. I know, it's remarkable. Anyway, she gets completely absorbed by the strangeness of the bookmobile and spends nine years (seriously) of her life trying to find it again whilst filling her life with books and reading (not going to diss the girl for that). In the meantime she becomes a proper librarian as some kind of poor substitute (meh). Finally she realises that the only way she can become a librarian on the bookmobile is to kill herself. Which seems pretty extreme but there you go. So, she does and lo and behold! There she is in the library of her dreams with uncle creepy.
I mainly picked it up because it looked like it was librarian related and could have made a good gift for bookish friends. It was not as whimsical as I thought it was going to be and in the future I shall definitely be more cautious of whimsy. I mean, I love books as much as the next person but I'm not sure if I like them enough to take fourteen Valium and slit my wrists in an attempt to get a job on a magical mobile library in a Winnebago. [insert witty joke about the current job climate not being THAT bad]. Perhaps I missed an important message in the book, perhaps I was distracted by the terrible illustrations. Either way, give it a read and see what you think. Let me know if there's a pertinent message I've missed?
Just tell me this. Would you get into a vehicle with this man?
I didn't think so.
