I often find my treasure at Half Priced Books. The most recent find was Iron Council by China Mieville. I've been tracing the Bas Lag trilogy since my boyfriend was required to read Perdido Street Station for his Literature class. I ended up finishing off the book and put the other 2 in the trilogy on my To-Read list. Now that I've checked Iron Council off the list, it's The Scar left that I have to find. The city of New Crobuzon (where the story is set) is one of those places that you want to watch, to observe, maybe to glimpse in and live there for a moment to see how real, how unreal, how normal and chaotic it is to be there physically. And then you decided that nevermind, I don't want to die. I don't want to take part in that insanity. But I want to keep looking, keep wondering and following the cameraman. As long as it is a movie in my vision, I should be safe. The universe of the trilogy spans several landscape, time periods and discusses ideology, anc...