Finished

July 15th - 8:43pm

Strange Failure

Sixer: This month the book we're reading is Susanna Clarke's tome Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Bevity: Yes, it's an extremely long novel. Like... never-ending.

Sixer: Luckily, We're both about two or three hundered pages in already.

Bevity: Yeah, lucky, we've only got six hundered pages left, woohoo!

Sixer: On one hand I'm really glad we have so much more to read because it's really well written and very interesting, however in some deep, dark, secret, hidden place in my soul I'm starting to wonder if all books over four-hundered pages were written just to torment busy biblophiles.

Bevity: Oh, most definitely. When I write novels they will all be one thousand pages long! MWahahahaaaaaa!!!!

Strange Ambition

Bevity: this month we have a very "interminable" book.

Sixer: Used hyperbolically, but yes. 14 days in and over 670 pages to go yet. I think, between us, we've yet to reach the two hundred page mark.

Bevity: It's pretty sad. Our predicament – not the book. The book is fascinating.

Sixer: And, as if to give homage to our blog title, it's full of footnotes. We're talking, of course, about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Bevity: It's really a book lovers' book. The first few chapters are all about books.  

Sixer: I love the description of all the old men sitting around studying magic and making it boring as, well, history.

Bevity: That was in the first line. I love how you can tell a lot about a book by its first line. Never judge a book by its cover, but always by its first line.

Sixer: So say we all.