[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke]

Well done Gyre!

 

And have fun with it NiceguyEddie... are you named after the sleeper song? I remember seeing them live quite a few years ago... Louise Wener writes novels herself these days! No idea if they're meant to be any good.

[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke]

Hi Markmark

 

I have just started part 2, I was pretty lapsed in reading it because I got caught up with 'Anansi Boys' by Neil Gaiman, but I am now concentrating on our magical boys

 

Good luck with the rest of it!

 

I might read some Neil Gaiman soon... my brother seems to have devoured everything he's written, which is always a good sign.

 

I'm reading Mr Mee by Andrew Crumey now. It's got another fussy old academic in it! Although he's trying to get to grips with the internet, so it's not quite the same...

[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke]

Yeah! Just finished it this morning. Am glad I stuck with it. I think it's a little longer than it needs to be, the pace dipping somewhat in places, but overall highly enjoyable and imaginative. I thought the footnotes were generally interesting, but disrupted the flow of the narrative a bit too much at points.

 

How are you getting on with it Gyre?

[Are you pleased with what you've read in 2007?]

I'm quite pleased with this years books, though I do wish I managed to read more of them. I did discover a couple of great authors though: namely Maggie O'Farrell and Ian McEwen.

 

 

Which Ian McEwan did you read? I read Cement Garden this year and loved it. I really like all his stuff I've read except Saturday, which I thought was a little tedious. It read like he was just showing off about his research! I've been given On Chesil Beach for xmas and looking forward to reading it.

 

Not been keeping track of how many books I've read this year, but finished plowing my way through Haruki Murakami's fiction. I can't get enough of him!

[How many books do you read at once?]

1 for me... my brain will get muddled if otherwise!

[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke]

Yeah. I'm trying to read a whole chapter each time I pick it up if I can... It's speeding up a lot for me now. I find the more I read it, especially after Jonathan is in it more, it becomes pretty compelling. Lots of potential friction. The amount of possibilities are intriguing me...

 

 

So far so good, Hi MarkMark!, we get through this book together:lol:

 

I am really enjoying it, but it is proving pointless to read it in work, I try to but someone always asked me to do something or look for something, so I am reading on the bus.

 

I have not made a big impact reading it, I just finished the part with Jonathon's Father, and can I just say,

Lawrence (I hope that is name) is a total berk!

 

hello princessponti, hello people!

[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke]

I'm reading this at the moment. I'm about a quarter of the way through. Enjoying it a lot - am finding the Victorian novel style narrative a lot of fun. Last couple of books I read before this were by Chuck Palahniuk and Tom Robbins, so it's quite a change!