Status Updates From Titus Groan

Actually 9 pages (I'm reading on 624) Titus Groan book

...their four eyes...must have reddened to the hue of Mars, reddened and smouldered, and at last broken into flame, so intense was their hatred--broken into flame and circled about one another in ever-narrowing gyres and in swifter and yet swifter flight until, merged into one sizzling globe of ire they must surely have fled, the four in one, leaving a trail of blood behind..." The imagery in this book!!!

...the room was lit up with a tongue of flame that sprang into the air among the books on the right of the unused door. It died almost at once, withdrawing itself like the tongue of an adder, but a moment later it shot forth again and climbed in a crimson spiral, curling from left to right as it licked its way across the gilded and studded spines of Sepulchrave's volumes. This time it did not die away..." So sad!!

"The long shelves surrounded them, tier upon tier, circumscribing their world with a wall of other worlds imprisoned yet breathing among the network of a million commas, semi-colons, full stops, hyphens and every other sort of printed symbol." Love this description of a library!!