Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
I don’t know why I decided to reread this—I do like to reread books when my brain needs a reset or some comfort, but I hadn’t read this since it first came out and all I remembered were the footnotes, haha. I loved it less this time, I mean it’s just really slow and there’s a lot of business with the Napoleonic Wars and it takes way too long to resolve things with Lady Pole and Arabella (who were more interesting than some of the other characters, to me). It was one of those books that was cool while I was reading but I was never rushing to pick it back up (which is why it took me all week). Not to sound down on it, obviously it’s a great book, I’m just way more tired than I was in 2004.
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