From The Washington Post:
Traditionally, autumn is when publishers bring out their most ambitious novels: the buzziest debuts, the most hotly anticipated returns, the heaviest hitters. This year, many of them were also physically heavy, with page counts that climbed, dizzyingly, into the high hundreds and even four digits. (One independent press told us that producing these books broke their printer.)What’s a reader to do? Even with the promise of holiday downtime ahead, there’s only so much room on your nightstand. And it can only hold so much weight. The author of one hulking title quipped that while his book had been compared to “a brick,” that wasn’t quite right, because bricks start around four pounds and his tome came in at less than that. Only slightly, it turned out.
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