Vol. XII · No. 47
Printed at Undertowers, in the Westmarch
Price: One Penny, or a Half-pound of Leaf
Book notices, warnings & enthusiasms from the far side of the Shire
Highday, 24th Afterlithe, S.R. 1426
Weekly, weather and appetite permitting
Eleven pages, one of them advertisements
Front Page › Reviews
6 notices to date. Books not finished are listed but never rated — see the Larder Scale for why.
Fourteen volumes, a middle that sits down for a rest, and an ending that earns every page of the walk. An honest accounting of the cost before the recommendation.
The castle is the character; everyone inside it is furniture with opinions. Read it slowly or not at all.
I have kept this notice useless on purpose. Go in knowing nothing, and I would do it again.
A boy is clever, the cleverness costs him, and the rest of the book is the bill arriving. Nothing wasted anywhere in it.
An unwanted heir inherits, and is decent about it, and decency turns out to be the hardest thing in the room.
The narrator is lying and the prose is gorgeous and I cannot tell which of those is the obstacle.
One issue a week, on Highday morning. Three or four notices, whatever I've abandoned, and nothing else. No post on weeks I've only been rereading.