Booklog 59/2018 - Scott Lynch: In the Stacks

[jacey]

An augmented short story from Scott Lynch about a bunch of fifth year magic students whose end of year exam consists solely of returning a grimoire  to the library stacks. Unfortunately the Living Library of Hazar is, if not entirely sentient, malevolent in the extreme. Lazlo and his room-mate Casimir, under the supervision of two tutors and in the company two other students have to fight their way through all manner of deadly traps includiong rampaging vocabuvores. The deadly creatures (and books) in the library are not the only danger.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Sounds awful like the library at UU!

[jacey]

I used to work in a public library which was in a Victorian building with a theatre above. They used to load in shows via a shared back yard. One day they had a circus and their tiger got loose in the yard. (And there was also the time whern the Cinderella panto had a live Shetland pony to pull the golden coach. Unfortunately it relieved itself in the wings and the pee trickled through the floor into our book stacks. Nice!)