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§ 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?

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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.

Betsy HP - Jan 12, 2006 8:14:13 am PST #9770 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

Yes. Thank you. Guys, it's very good fantasy, with a solidly thought-out background, and with grim, realistic settings but not being drive-me-to-suicide dark. Good book.

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