Dept. of Books

[kaffy_r]

 I Forgot To Mention

I have been meaning for some time to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I finally took the time to get it from the library, and I'm enjoying it a great deal. It's sort of Austenian, but that's probably a very lazy way to describe Susanna Clarke's intricate and elegant tale of magic in a Regency England that is almost, but not quite, ours. So far, I'm finding Mr. Norrell both pathetically unlikeable and fascinating. I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of Jonathan Strange. 

Comments

[lolmac]

TBH, the writing and the style made far more of an impact on me than the actual story. I'm not sure I'd whoop with joy over another work in the same fictionverse, as it were, but I have definite plans to read more work by the same author.