Book-related whittering

[graculus]

My local library system is frustrating me at the moment. While I very much appreciate their policy of circulating books around the branches (of which there are many), it makes no sense to me that they seem to keep sending my local branch books which are partway through a series. If, like me, you would very much like to read multi-volume fantasy books, it's damn annoying to spot something and then discover there are a couple of volumes in the series which are nowhere nearby.

Anyway, concentrating on single volumes for now, I've been very much enjoying Tad Williams' book 'The War of the Flowers', which I'm about halfway through. He's created a really interesting and incredibly hierarchical world system inhabited by fairykind, but not in your cheesy mock-Tolkien kind of way. These fae are alien in a variety of ways, but live in a universe that resembles our own in a manner than can hardly be coincidental - time will tell when I get to the end of it, I guess.

More later when I think of stuff...

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[graculus.livejournal.com]

In this case, you can actually track where the books have been by the dates on the flyleaf - they have a grid for all the branches and dates get written in when books get to a new one. They spend about 6 months in each library, roughly.

Alas, there doesn't seem to be a link between the books in a set when they do move on so you get the second or third book turning up somewhere apparently at random. If it wasn't for that I'd subscribe to your bosses' theory, because this way of doing things is certainly a system I've never seen before.

Yeah, I liked 'Tailchaser's Song' as well, and the trilogy-that-became-a-foursome of 'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn' too. ;)