Book Four: Chapter 104

“Wow,” he whispered. Up above, he could hear the rustling of pages and slamming of shelves as these objects shifted onto the new pillars. “What genre is this?”

“This pillar is romance.” She pointed her staff toward one of the landing zones. “These off-shoots will eventually have some category of their own, and then break away from here to become their own columns, or maybe merge with another category into a bigger column. You don’t often see this at the entrance, because those books are the more popular ones that used to get borrowed all the time.” She appraised the enormous column. “I’m rather impressed at how many books seem to be written in this category, but there seems to be a quality issue.”

“Quality? Like, the stories suck?”

“Oh, I have no idea. It would be nice to sit around all day and read them. I’ll show you what I mean.” They had landed, and she led the way to the nearest bookshelf. Several of the books on it looked normal, but she eventually picked one