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A couple of nice things from this week.

1) I finished the first draft of my story for rekindlespangel (and just as well, because I'm now back in disliking Angel mode).

2) I started reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. Don't know why it didn't occur to me until recently to check if she'd written anything else apart from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (a book I love dearly), but lo and behold there was this book of short stories. Loved the first one (the title story). Not so sure about the second, a retelling of Tom Tit Tot/Rumpelstiltskin. Her publisher's website says that she's currently working on a new novel set after JS&MN timewise and featuring characters from a lower social class. I hope it won't take her ten years to write this one.

(no subject)

A couple of nice things from this week.

1) I finished the first draft of my story for rekindlespangel (and just as well, because I'm now back in disliking Angel mode).

2) I started reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. Don't know why it didn't occur to me until recently to check if she'd written anything else apart from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (a book I love dearly), but lo and behold there was this book of short stories. Loved the first one (the title story). Not so sure about the second, a retelling of Tom Tit Tot/Rumpelstiltskin. Her publisher's website says that she's currently working on a new novel set after JS&MN timewise and featuring characters from a lower social class. I hope it won't take her ten years to write this one.

(no subject)

A couple of nice things from this week.

1) I finished the first draft of my story for rekindlespangel (and just as well, because I'm now back in disliking Angel mode).

2) I started reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. Don't know why it didn't occur to me until recently to check if she'd written anything else apart from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (a book I love dearly), but lo and behold there was this book of short stories. Loved the first one (the title story). Not so sure about the second, a retelling of Tom Tit Tot/Rumpelstiltskin. Her publisher's website says that she's currently working on a new novel set after JS&MN timewise and featuring characters from a lower social class. I hope it won't take her ten years to write this one.