Don't you love the title of this book? I decided to name my home The Dwelling of Dreaming Books. Although it is obviously not a whole City, it also has hundreds of books "sleeping/dreaming" away on shelves and in stacks and piles all around waiting to be woken up by someone picking them up or pullin...
Imagine a world where books are valued – not like we appreciate books in our society, but really valued. A place where authors are celebrities, first editions are coveted, people memorize and recite famous excerpts, and even crimes are committed over rare books. This is the world of Zamonia, a myt...
There is something about the books you own. There is a sense to them. You can tell what they are simply by touch. Possession feels physically different than [b:The Forgotten Garden|3407877|The Forgotten Garden|Kate Morton|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k8YmcsgDL._SL75_.jpg|3448086]. They...
Walter Moers created a fascinating universe and stayed true to it all the way through. I'm not sure the plot is so spectacular on its own, but the story was made so by all the details and all the descriptions that he included. It took me awhile to get used to his way of writing, so I wasn't hooked f...
Walter Moers (and his excellent translator, John Brownjohn) love language, and that love permeates ever page, many times. Consequently, the book is a comic hymn to the power, beauty and fun of words, along with a more cautious love of books (which can provoke, or even be, evil). The books of the tit...
This book is devilishly clever and original. Unfortunately, the author got a little bogged down in his own cleverness. The storyline is constantly interrupted with very long descriptions. Some of them are good descriptions, but it's all overdone. I read nearly 200 pages before giving up, so I don...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I think it should have been in the young adult section of the library, but that's okay.I love the world that Moers created. An entire city devoted exclusively to books! Even the food was somehow related to books either by name or shape. A city of bookstores, just ...
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