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have you read Libriomancer, by Jim C. Hines (2012)?
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no
vote yes if you have finished the entire book.
vote no if you have not finished the entire book.
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just finished reading this series and its probably my top book series now
I'm reading a thing where a dryad fights with wooden swords
Which strikes me as being conceptually similar to beating people up with your own severed arm
If the library is your happy place...
Sean suggests these library-themed reads!
This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War 2 and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity by James Raven
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert
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Libriomancer by PaintedParrott
A little doodle of Isaac Vainio. I just finished the audiobook version of Libriomancer (in 2015) and I'm in love with the story concept. The main character, Isaac, is a librarian who can pull objects out of books. Here he's wearing the 10th Doctor's jacket and holding Excalibur, with his pal Smudge (the fire spider) on his shoulder. :) I've just updated this drawing 2 years after creating the first version because I decided I'd be better off sticking to my own style instead of messing with cell shading and painfully neat outlines. You can still see the original version here if you enjoy feeling your eyes melt.
Like. I don't know dates off the top of my head, but my library definitely had a bunch of "books on tape" by the late 90s, and Wikipedia claims that there were dedicated ebook readers as early as the 70s. Definitely both e- and audio books were part of the publishing landscape before your publication in 2012. So why haven't they come up, even briefly, in relation to your book-based magic system?
For example: you can pull objects out of any book that's sufficiently widely read, subject to the size of the page. It's not difficult to have an ebook projected on a wall of arbitrary size. How does that interact with the magic?
Day 18: A book that disappointed you
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
This book had all the ingredients of greatness, but was very very meh.
The magic system I loved, seriously. Both how it works and the history of it were very nicely done.
What I didn’t love was how very clearly-written-by-a-man this book is. I can see how he has tried to be feminist about it but it just fails miserably.
30 Day Book Challenge
eBook sales really do work! The Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines was on sale and I bought it - and got sucked right into a magical world of #librarian and #reader magicians who can draw objects (and sometimes creatures) right out of books, Johannes Gutenberg who created Libriomancy as well as the printing press, and fantasy creatures such as vampires and dryads who have leaked from books. I love the characters and world and #bookish references and imagination so much that I had to buy all the books in print as well as ebook, and I'm hoping Hines writes more soon! I found myself wishing the magic was real, and as an avid reader with a strong imagination I could pull objects out of books, too - the healing potion from Narnia; flying carpet from Nesbit's books; spell books from Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic series, and so much more. . Books one, two, and four arrived today, with three coming soon. These are adult fantasy, but SO well written with no boring bits, and pure delight for #booklovers! I love books about books! Highly recommended. . Libriomancer ebook is still on sale for $1.82 US http://amzn.to/2uA9lW7 and $1.99 CAN http://amzn.to/2uzSnYb . . #libriomancer #jimchines #booknerd #booklovers #librarians #bookstagram #readerlove #readingisforever #bookrecommendation #bookrecs #bookworm #bookdragon #bookmagic #ebooksale #ebooks #CherylRainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerdigans #ireadya #survivor #feminist