This year's librarian's choice was an unusually complicated matter in that we had no clear cut favorite and all entries were considered serious candidate, mostly due to the high quality of the entries, but in the end the Presidence of Ambriel prevailed and quite rightly so.
Much like our Bronze winner and Runner Up, the Presidence of Ambriel does not deal with a concrete topic, the focus being on description. And what a description it is. The entry is dripping with visual imagery, to the point where it relies almost entirely on them. The problem is using a single tool all the time is that you can easily set yourself up for failure but this isn't the case here due to Hitai's very skilled use of figures of speech (the exquisite metaphors and comparisons stand out) and refined artistic style which combine to make a 7 line entry into a fantastic escape to another place far away of the hum drum of modern life.
The style is very complex and the language elevated, which is both a good and bad thing for Hitai's submission. The good is that it makes the entry very very good, the bad is that non-English speakers might have a harder time of understanding much from it but that does not take away from the entry's high quality and it never hurts to learn a new word or two. I don't know about others but we librarians love idyllic fields where dances take root and for that reason it is out great honor to award Hitai de Bodemloze with the a deserved Librarian's Choice award and all other entrants with a hearty pat on the back for job well done.
- Sir Adrian
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