Finished Garth Nix's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London and it made me very happy. He definitely drew on elements of Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising series, one of my favorites!).
Start Shroud today (Adrian Tchaikovsky). Still just on chapter 1.2 and really loving it so far!
It's been a hard couple of lupus days, but I started Garth Nix's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London and it's so good!
I loved his Abhorsen series, and this has echoes of that - an Old World that is trying to intrude on everyday reality, and is kept in check by a secret group of warrior booksellers.
Sometimes you just need a secret world of people fighting back the darkness to get you through. What a balm good books are!
The other day I learned that one of our favourite book series, The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, had a new entry released in 2021.
We've been unable to read regularly for a long while now, as reading too much, learning new stuff or taking in new information, is difficult now and can properly burn us out for days or weeks at a time. Especially as the complexity increases.
However, I decided I wanted to have a go at re-reading the series. If successful, I could buy the newest book and give it a try!
Yesterday we started the first book in the series, Sabriel, and managed to read the Prologue + 4 chapters before our brain started to get hurty and we put it down.
Tonight we read another 4 chapters again, before the hurty started.
I think a lot of this is coming down to us having read the books before, several times, so the world, language, and concepts are not new to us, and it is also a YA series so, by its very nature, it is easier to read.
We are feeling quite proud of ourselves for getting as far as we have.
Even if we end up having to stop before we can finish the whole series, it is quite an achievement for us to have read *anything* so far.
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Norberts fantastische Ecke: The left-handed Booksellers of London
By Garth Nix Im Buchclub wurde im August das Buch „Die magischen Buchhändler von London“ zum Buch des Monats gekürt. Da mir die deutsche Sprecherin aufgrund ihrer sehr schnellen Sprechweise nicht zusagte, habe ich mir das englische Buch dazu angehört. Inhalt Susan ist gerade 18 geworden und zieht nach London, weil sie dort im Herbst … Weiterlesen The left-handed Booksellers of London →
https://norbertsfantastischeecke.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/the-left-handed-booksellers-of-london/
Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 6 copies of @garthnix's The Old Kingdom Collection: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3ltkgxaqdy22g
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Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of @garthnix.bsky.social's The Old Kingdom Collection: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, which I *have* but *haven't read*. I believe this is the first time I've given away book by this author, which is cool! #KindleBookGiveaway
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