jasoncook.comfoo bar blog: life's variables, globally declared.jonathan strange and mr. norrell- December 13, 2004 About a month ago, I finished Susanna Clarke&8217;s &8220;Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell&8221;, though I didn&8217;t really put the book to rest for three weeks after. It&8217;s a massive tome; I wasn&8217;t about to re-read it from the start, but the book demanded immediate re-visits, first a page here, then a passage there. And so it stayed atop my nightstand, getting better and better. It&8217;s a hard book to describe: the 19th-century atmosphere feels as cold as a lake in winter, and a...http://www.jasoncook.com/archives/000232.shtml |