Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!

In article <100tj1p$vln7$1@dont-email.me>,
 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 24/05/2025 16:01, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

I would have sworn that, some years back, somebody linked here to an
image of a
bookshelf filled with fictitious titles. My search skills aren't up to
recovering
it, though.

Do you mean, a bookshelf that appears to contain
books which are only titles mentioned in reasonably
well-known fiction?  Like Terry Pratchett's
"Necrotelicomnicon" / "Liber Paginarum Fulvarum"
(Book of Yellow Pages).
 
Its wiki entry digresses that "Ye Tantric Booke of
Sexe Magicke" is kept in a refrigerated cell at the
bottom of a vat of crushed ice.  So, shouldn't be
on the shelf, unless seen smouldering.
 
On the other hand, characters in Phil and Kaja
Foglio's _Girl Genius_ webcomic are ardent
bibliophiles.  If not in the story, then
some out-of-sequence illustrations, I think,
had interesting book titles, either their own,
or borrowed from Asimov etc.  But the comic is in
thousands of pages.
 
Here's the start of an out-of-sequence story
involving dragons and librarians - dragons also
are bibliophiles, it seems.  Anything you can
?horse, I suppose.  But light on book titles near
the start.
<https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220826>

Then there is Gil's library in Castle Wulfenbach, much earlier in the
series, see <https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040204>
and <https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040206>.

For that matter, there is also the library in Castle Heterodyne, see
<https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/doublespreads/ggcoll11_005_006.h
tml>

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