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STRANGE & NORRELL: It's about to go down!
Up to Chapter 60. Whoo-hoo! It's going down!!! I don't say much about the plot, but I do read a cute passage that won't spoil anything for you.
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STRANGE & NORRELL: Strange breaks through
Strange solves the big problem of his scholarship proceeding his break with Norrell. The cover copy of the book misrepresents the darkness of Strange's late…
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STRANGE & NORRELL: To Ch. 51, quiet and tense
I think I'm getting a little delirious today. I've been reading this book, so far, and thinking about what my next correspondence would say as I went. I've been…
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STRANGE & NORRELL: Through Volume II
Every time Clarke manages to create a really intriguing situation, it gets resolved quite quickly. That said, she creates a lot of intriguing situations, so…
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STRANGE & NORRELL: Ch. 39, still Tolkien free
More about the manner of men than great adventures or things in that line, this part of the book has touching moments that reveal character in ways that I'm not…
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STRANGE & NORRELL: Strange newly resolute!
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL proceeds. Jonathan strange is back from the Napoleonic Wars and becoming ever more willing to strike out in magical ways on his…
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STRANGE & NORRELL: Through Ch. 31, war's end. SP
STRANGE & NORRELL: Through Ch. 31, war's end. SPOILERS · The Napoleonic wars have ended. Strange has come home. I fear that two "imperatives of genre" have wormed…
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STRANGE & NORRELL: through ch. 28
How Norrell and Strange remind me of Superman. And yet, it doesn't really matter. I also read some great passages from the last 40 pages or so.
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STRANGE & NORRELL: Through Ch. 25
I've got to crash out, but I wonder if Clarke is trying to poke some holes in the whole understanding we have of (the rather simplistic notion) of "good" and…
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STRANGE&NORRELL: Volume I wrap-up
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Strange&Norrell: Ch.20 -- the 3 spells?
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Starting Chapter 18 of Strange and Norrell!
I just finished Chapter 17. With the introduction of a real-deal black character, the story is getting darker. That's sort of a weird literary choice, or maybe…
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JOHNATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL at pg 159
I fear that the genre imperative of fantasy may force Norrell into some sort of quest. I don't want a quest. There won't really be a quest, will there???
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Susanna Clarke tells men just how silly we are
Susanna Clarke basically manages to kick me in the gut with this passage. We men are so silly and self-important sometimes! Alas, if I could be the quietly…
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Strange & Norrell Observation: character pairs
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JOHNATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL at Chapter 8
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JOHNATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL @ pg. 68
Tags: Clarke, literature
