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Today, for the first time in more than a year and a half, I went to an actual physical library. The library is usually very good at getting the ebooks I request but for some reason this one book I wanted they can't get as an ebook so I had to get it in physical form. I planned to just get this one book, I really should have known that I would leave with more than one; in the end I left with eight, which was a bit more than I expected. But they had interesting fantasy books originally written in German, lying right there on the table, and I couldn't resist.
It was very nice to be surrounded by so many books again! Unfortunately I still didn't feel completely comfortable just staying for longer and browsing (also I wanted to get home), but I should definitely check out this branch again.

Thanks for all the encouragement on my recent rec post, that was very nice and now I definitely want to try reccing things more regularly :)

Comments

[flo_nelja]

Oooh, what did you buy?

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My original goal was to borrow "The Raven Tower", and then I also got books 6 and 7 of the Zamonia series, the "Black Alchemy" trilogy (idk if it is a trilogy but the series has three books so far) and the first two books of the "Die Krone der Dunkelheit" series.

[flo_nelja]

I understood this German title :D
Thanks!

[tamsin]

I'm well familiar with that behaviour. I'm going to the library tomorrow, let's see how I fare. *g* Which books did you take home with you?

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So how did you do? ^^

I most look forward to "The Raven Tower" and the "Black Alchemy" trilogy (idk if it is a trilogy but the series has three books so far), and I also got books 6 and 7 of the Zamonia series, and the first two books of the "Die Krone der Dunkelheit" series.

[tamsin]

I brought home five, so it could have been worse. *g*

Zamonien! There are some great books in that series!

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Ich habe "Käpt´n Blaubär", "Rumo", "Der Schrecksenmeister" und "Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher" dahei, sollte ich wieder mal lesen :) Ich hab gehört, dass "Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher" und "Prinzessin Insomnia" leider nicht so gut sein sollen wie andere Zamonien-Bücher, aber reinlesen will ich trotzdem.

[michelel72]

It's been a very long time since I brought home that many books from a library trip! (Having displays with multiple great options right there certainly has helped me do that, and it sounds like the same approach got to you as well. Kudos to librarians!)

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Twenty years ago I went to the library with a shopping cart and came home with 20+ books, I no longer do that but it almost felt a little nostalgic :) Yeah, well-made displays are very tempting. Fortunately I had a spare bag.

[nonesensed]

Ah, libraries <3 I too went to one for the first time in a loooong time recently and even though the visit was brief it still felt so good to get to be in a real library again! I didn't leave with eight books, but only because I'm spending the summary isolated with my parents & sister, so I couldn't lug too many along with me XD

Are you reading all not-in-the-same-series books simultaneously or working your way through them one by one? Any favorites yet? I read The Raven Tower recently and would love to discuss the story if you feel like it when you've finished :)

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"The Raven Tower" is next on my list! Looking forward to it :)
Other than that I only took the "Black Alchemy" series on my mini-vacation, so that one will be next.

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I just finished The Raven Tower and I enjoyed it :) I did not expect a tragedy, though looking back it was kind of building up to it. I enjoyed the narration and the musing on divinity etc. (The end was a bit fast, I would have liked a bit more about the plan the Strength and Patience of the Hill made.)

[nonesensed]

I agree that the ending felt a little abrupt - I was so expecting the narrator and the "main character" to finally meet that I didn't see that tone of ending coming either XD I like the setting and the story, but I think I was expecting something different even though I went in blind, so I was a bit taken aback when Patience of the Hill just went "Better run now, things are about to Go Down, bye~!". Would also have loved to know more about all the planing and plotting going on between the flashback-time and the present. Definitely a world I'd like to learn more about, as well as the characters!