First read in December 2004, reread in July 2017. I loved this book when I first read it. And loved the tv adaptation that came out last year1 so when Aarti suggested a reread I thought it was a great idea. One of the main reasons I haven’t reread it before now is that the […]
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own
Naturally he was eager to re-establish himself as Emperor, but it was not yet known where he would chuse to be Emperor of. Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
County gentleman who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the county gentlemen were not made comfortable by this thought. The country gentlemen had a strong suspicion that cleverness was somehow unBritish. That sort of restless, unpredictable brilliance belonged […]
Mr Norrell (who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them in books, but who had never actually been introduced to a joke or shaken its hand) Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, pg 41