![]() ![]() As it often happens, I misjudge time and have to cram my book club assignments, so I ended up reading The Starless Sea over the course of two days straight, and it was so enjoyable to submerse myself in this world.įirst, the book description sounds like Borges’s “The Library of Babel.” Then the book opens with a tale of a pirate held in jail awaiting execution, and a girl who brings him food, to whom he tells stories - which is a total nod to the 1,001 Arabian Nights framing story. This was one of the books voted into our book club, and I was glad it was, because I had seen it on new release tables at the bookstore and was intrigued. ![]() Thus begins the book jacket copy for The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern’s sophomore novel after the success of her debut, The Night Circus. “Far beneath the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories.” ![]()
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