Jonathan Strange had a few bits where I felt it bogged down (and I honestly can't remember where those were), but other than that, I enjoyed the book. I actually read it fairly slowly, and it felt as if I were inhabiting the book for a good two weeks or so. It's not often I can find a book that I can live in like that.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Anne W. - Jan 12, 2006 2:11:14 am PST #9760 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 4:00:28 am PST #9761 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is my car book, so unless I haul it upstairs and have a long sitdown, it'll take a while. Of course, my inside book, The Algebraist isn't doing much better.
In non-fiction news (at which I'm much better), B&N just delivered Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, Castle, and Mosque by David Macaulay. The first two I remember lovingly from high school (I think I used one of them in a project), and Mosque is new and in colour. I can't wait to sit down with them and some tea.
Jars - Jan 12, 2006 4:03:27 am PST #9762 of 10002
ita, I've been reading The Algebraist for about four months now and am only a hundred or so pages in. I will finish it. Oh yes.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 4:05:04 am PST #9763 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't dislike The Algebraist, but it's really not dragging me along for the ride. I don't miss it the way I miss Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I think it needs more attention to do it justice, and I'm just...not. I will address that this weekend.
Calli - Jan 12, 2006 4:05:28 am PST #9764 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I recently finished Folly, by Laurie R. King. It's not part of her Sherlock and Russell series or her Kate Martinelli series, but I really liked it. It made me want to move to the San Juan islands. (Not that that's a hard sell for me.)
sumi - Jan 12, 2006 4:24:16 am PST #9765 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I'm so glad that you guys are enjoying or have enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I recommended it to a friend and she HATED it -- stopped reading it in fact.
Jars - I had the same experience as you did -- I tried to drag out the ending so that I wouldn't be done. I started reading it late in 2004 but I think I finished it in 2005.
Jessica - Jan 12, 2006 7:21:11 am PST #9766 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Volans - Jan 12, 2006 7:59:36 am PST #9767 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I just got Jonathan Strange, Anansi Boys, and Woken Furies.
Reading bliss.
Betsy HP - Jan 12, 2006 8:09:15 am PST #9768 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Gah. I need help. I have this book I need to recommend but can't remember author/title.
Anyway, the author is an LJ stalwart, the book is called something like Melisande, it's got excellent dark worldbuilding and is roughly equivalent to Georgian London/Paris, and the main plot is about a tattooed sorceror who's being used to destroy the magical foundation of teh world.
Ring any bells? Cause, damn, it was good.
Dana - Jan 12, 2006 8:12:38 am PST #9769 of 10002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Is it Sarah Monette's Melusine? Which I haven't read, but I know the author on LJ.