Besides those being in some private-ish places, the city (Antwerp) also has some public stuff like that.
Same here, but before I could act they’d also established the rule that you couldn’t bring more books than you took away 
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That looks beautiful indeed! And quite a welcome deviation from today’s cover art. It’s bad enough in Germany, but looking at books from the U.S., one wonders whether publishers have fired all their artists and have some MBA design the covers in PowerPoint using the included clip art instead.
I mean, just look at these!
And while one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, that’s what I usually do, because that’s the first bit that catches my eye, before I open a page at random and read a paragraph or two.
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My kids’ bookshelves are overflowing at the moment. And after every holiday they get even more crowded. I’m planning to sort through them and donate a box to the library. I’m really bad at getting rid of things, I get too sentimental. But if you donate to a library at least there’s a chance someone else might get some enjoyment out of it.
After I’ve read something once (or rarely twice) it tends to just sit on my shelf for decades… or more accurately, on the pile of books next to the shelf.
I’m assuming the translator is not one of Elizabeth Taylor’s seven husbands?!
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Ran out of shelfspace, too. Huh?
Don´t think so…
Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. AKA Richard Burton (1925 - 1984)
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After finishing the Lyonesse Trilogy1 and Fritz Leiber’s Swords and Deviltry2 and Swords Against Death (conveniently contained in a single volume), I now moved on to the book stack posted somewhere above, starting with Josiah Bancroft’s Senlin Ascends. I’m not too far in yet, but I was barely able to put it away and go to sleep. It’s quite an atypical fantasy story, wonderfully Kafkaesque, beautifully written and gripping from page one.
1. All in all not bad, but suffering a bit from its mix of world-spanning political intrigues and personal adventure story. I very much liked the adventure parts, which got better and better with each volume, but not so much the remaining third of the narrative. And I thought that poor Melancthe had deserved better treatment.
2. Pretty grim, compared to the later entries (or maybe my memory does not serve me well).
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Finished Senlin Ascends. Now I’m torn between buying the next volumes in English (meaning things will look ugly on the shelf) or waiting patiently for them to appear in German (with not even a release date available).
All in all, one of the most refreshing books I recently read. Towards the end, it lost a bit of its magic as the protagonist grew stronger, but it still managed to keep him constantly on edge and never on top of things.
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Finished The Thorn of Dentonhill by Marshall Ryan Maresca. Straightforward Sword & Sorcery with an overpowered protagonist. Nothing I’d pick up by myself, but as a gift it was okay. It certainly wasn’t boring and neither appeared to be written by a 10 year old. Unlike Genevieve Cogman’s The Burning Page, which I thumbed through and decided it isn’t for me, gift or not.
Currently I read Terry Pratchett´s Mort and enjoying it immensely. Really thinking if I should start over with all the Discworld Novels and read all of them in order. Ah, but so little time…
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Oh no! Don’t put these kind of ideas into ma heid!
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I’ve been meaning to check those out. Equal Rites was the only one I remember, but it was really funny. My son was just gifted The Color of Magic. I might have to borrow that when he’s done.
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Yeah, that´s the first one and a good one to start with. I read the first two ages ago. Mort is the 4th one and often named as one of the best.
Frankly, I don´t see anyone liking the humour of Kings Quest and Monkey Island and NOT enjoy Discworld.
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I prefer Equal Rights to Mort. 
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AFAIR The first books aren’t “connected” like the following books. They are set on the Discworld, but if I remember correctly, Rincewind is a different person in each of the first books. (The Discworld fans might correct me here. 
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You mean that it’s more of a collection of loosely connected short stories instead of one coherent novel like later books?
But then I’m not the fan you’re looking for. I’ve read some five or six of the books (the first few and Sourcery), and the Tiffany Achings series.
No, each book is a novel as we all know it. But in the first books Terry Pratched just re-used some names. And IMHO his first novels are much “darker” than in his later works. (For example there are much more tentacles involved.)
Long story short: Just read all books. They are worth reading them.
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It says in each book, they are standalone stories but if you want to benefit from the world building and all, reading them in order improves the fun.
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Well no, that part was more of a statement of fact. I was asking if the fact that there are four stories stitched together in The Color of Magic is what you were referring to when saying it’s not as connected as one of the later books. Since those do feature a clear overarching narrative structure.
Btw, Rincewind didn’t feel like a different character to me in the three or four books I’ve read in which he was featured, nor in the Discworld games.
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Ah, sorry.
I have to add that I’ve read the books several years ago, but I clearly remember that I was puzzled because of some differences, especially with Rincewind. Sounds like I have to read the first books again. 