One day, when Sefia is returning from a village, she discovers that Aunt Nin has been captured. They carry what they need in their packs and hunt for game as they go sometimes they enter different towns or villages to sell the pelts they have collected. Sefia, the main character, has been living on the run with her aunt Nin since her parents died. It’s a landscape made of several large islands (reminiscent, just the smallest bit, of Wizard of Earthsea), with each island having its own government and many of the islands battling each other for resources. Instead, it is a society where books just don’t exist. I thought it would be a fantasy version of 451, where books are illegal but some people still have them anyway. So obviously I couldn’t resist The Reader by Traci Chee, a YA fantasy set in a world without books. And of course, Fahrenheit 451, which is, I think, the book that started my interest in books about books. 84 Charing Cross Road (went I went to London I made sure to go to Charing Cross Road, even if the bookstore from the book is gone now) and My Reading Life. Possession, certainly, and The Shadow of the Wind. Fikry is a recent one The People of the Book, and The Book Thief, The End of Your Life Book Club and the wacky If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Books about reading and books are a favorite of mine.
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