I selected this book from the Little Free Library at Twinbrook Baptist Church in Rockville, Maryland, USA. Thank you very much!

I am releasing this book at the annual BookCrossing Holiday Party at the home of authorauthor. This book is a RABCK for Spatial who wishlisted it on 07/14/17.

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I'm releasing this book for the following BookCrossing challenge:

***The 2017 What's in a Name Release Challenge hosted by DragonGoddess . The title of this book contains the names JON, JONATHAN, JONATHA, NAT, NATHAN and AN (x2).

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A Wishlist book given to me at the BCinDC Christmas Party.
Thank you, SqueakyChu!

Enjoyable story! Like many reviewers have mentioned, it starts out slow, but if you can stick with it, it is well worth the 800+ page read!

Now I'm interested in watching the miniseries. I can't wait to see how they imagined it for the screen!

I also just read the short story, Mr Simonelli or the Fairy Widower Clarke submitted to Happily Ever After. It occurs within the same world as JS&MN but with a different cast of characters! This short story can also be found in Black Heart, Ivory Bones.

Reserved for bookstogive’s General Literature VBB

On its way to perryfran as part of the General Literature VBB



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Received today. Thanks! Didn't realize this was such a doorstopper of a book. Hopefully, I'll be able to get to it sometime soonish.

Several times as I was reading this massive novel, I thought of giving up on it. But the more I read, the more I wanted to find out what would happen to the characters in the story and how some of the main issues would be resolved. Well I continued to the end (all 846 pages) and am glad I did. This novel took Clarke ten years to write and at some points, I thought it was going to take me that long to read! I did have some other things distracting me from reading this including watching our granddaughter and preparing for the holidays but I finally finished it this morning.

From Wikipedia: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centered on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel.

Although the novel is a fantasy and an alternate history, it does provide a lot of information about Britain during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century. The main premise of magic and its once upon use in England was a very interesting idea and the alternate history that Clarke includes in the novel is extensive including many, many footnotes to magnify her alternate world. Some of this I found to be a little tedious with the footnotes breaking up the flow of the story but overall I did find it quite enthralling even though early on in the novel I about gave up on it. In the end, I feel that it was worth reading but I do think it could have been edited down quite a bit.

There is also a BBC miniseries based on the novel. I found out that it is currently available on Netflix so I'm sure I will be watching it to see how it compares to the novel.

Wishlist tag to adrienne10 in Washington. Enjoy!

Received in the mail today. Thank you so much for this wishlist tag RABCK!