The greeting card street has expanded past control, which is a bit of a problem in the rest of book-town. Sure, it's all in response to market demand, and the tourists love it, they just absolutely love being able to wander a street filled with houses built of cards, and being able to see the card characters pouring each other tea and telling each ( Read more... )

There will always be people who romanticize the smell of books and the rustle of their pages, either because of fond childhood memories sitting on their grandpa's knee or because they think that's what a real sophisticate would like, or because--maybe--they genuinely appreciate the experience more. It's like those people who insist on their wine in ( Read more... )

Their fates were interleaved with those of the books, but the books were what was most important, the structure without which their lives would flutter into the flame. So they sacrificed a few of their number, or allowed them to be sent into danger, to protect the books. Most of the monks fled through the tunnels when they heard tales of the arm on ( Read more... )