Hmmmm

[pegkerr]

Salon describes a new book by Susanna Clark entitled Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell to be when Harry Potter met Jane Austen. I find myself unreasonably irritated by a book blurb description so baldly calculated to appeal to my tastes, but despite myself, I must admit to being intrigued. It sounds as though fans of Sorcery and Cecelia would like it.

I went to see Reece Witherspoon's Vanity Fair tonight, despite the bad reviews and the departures from the book. I was in just the right mood for it. Quite fun to try to identify the various actors and figure out where I'd seen them before. Ah, saw her in Grossford Park. She (Amelia) was in Nicholas Nickleby. And as for her hopelessly pining would-be lover, William Dobbin--that was Spike in Notting Hill?? No way!

Great fun.

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[fireriven.livejournal.com]

It's great fun.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Your LJ format's screwed up, hon.

And I've read JS & MN already, and it's quite amazing. I posted a few LJ entries about it a few weeks ago. Dont' let hackneyed sound-bite blurbs scare you off. Dive in and prepare yourself for a new and interesting literary experience.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Already fixed it, thanks! Sometimes I'm slow, but I do eventually catch on!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I fear I need this book.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Drat. It's not published in the UK until the 30th. I suppose I will wait, and that is pay day, after all. :)

[megancrewe.livejournal.com]

*laughs* When I first read your post (a little more quickly than perhaps I should have), I thought that Harry Potter literally met Jane Austen in the book. Reading over the book description, I realized my mistake. Does sound intriguing, though I think my interpretation has a lot of possibility as well. :D

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

A very picky non-fantasy fan friend of mine adored that book.

I'll have to try it, though I'm unreasaonably prejudiced against Clarke because I hated her first Starlight story so much (I thought it was smug and lazy and entirely predictable in its period radicalism in a way that was guaranteed to appeal to the Windling subversive fantasy crowd, and I was then irritated even more when Windling picked it for the best of the year while ignoring the subtle, sure-handed, and moving Andy Sawyer story in the same Starlight. But I am, er, easily irritated. Like I said, unreasonably prejudiced. Where did I put that closing parenthesis? Ah, here it is).