30.3.08
I am in love with Susanna Clarke's writing
I just started reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories in the same universe as Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which was absolutely wonderful, and, only one story in, I'm already in love with the collection. So far, my favorite part is the way the narrator apparently takes for granted that ladies could never be interested in magic, only in famous magicians (the same way that a lady might safely take an interest in daring young mountain climbers, but never in mountain climbing), continuing to naively report events that fly directly in the face of that assumption. It sets up a wonderful humorous tension.
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