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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve entered tome season so the #bookstack posts are going to be less frequent and really tall when I get around to it. I’m solo-posting this since it was exceptionally good. Almost 800 pages (I think I developed either arm muscles or carpal tunnel from reading it but I’m not sure which yet) with copious fictional footnotes that I never knew I needed in my reading life. Between this and all the Jane Austen, I’ve discovered I’m a total Anglophile and bring on the early 1800s Brit Lit because I’m here for it especially if it’s got stuffy English magic. It’s set during the Napoleonic wars and the only big difference from normal English life is that magic is legit except it’s been largely lost over the centuries since this guy called The Raven King left the North, and no one really knows how to practice it anymore. It’s also the perfect Libra-Scorpio cusp season read; frenemy magicians who represent very opposite sides of the scales (fear, restraint, and repression vs boldness, arrogance, and liberation) struggle together and against each other to revive English Magic. And basically they have no idea what they are doing, are super self-involved, do almost everything wrong, get in a huge fight with each other, and unleash Old Magic hell on themselves and much of 1800s Europe as a side effect. Also a creepily fantastic bad little fairy man gets in the mix and wreaks havoc and steals a lady’s finger and kidnaps a bunch of humans and Jonathan Strange the bold/arrogant magician helps defeat Napoleon by creating ghost ships out of rain and making dead mutilated soldiers talk and changing the topography of all the countries the troops occupy. There’s also some good old romance and non-magic intrigue thrown in but mainly it’s all spooky magic and bad decision-making. This book is a commitment, an undertaking, and often slow, but it’s thoroughly enjoyable and superbly well-written. I read Piranesi by Susanna Clark before I read this, and I think it would have significantly reshaped my appreciation for the former if I’d read this one first. #bookstagram #booknerd https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWcwEzhDM2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Weekend mood, courtesy of @hpeebs (at La Fortuna, Baja California Sur, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkB0xi2PsVe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Painter by Låpsley... all damn day. #nowplaying #myhearthurtsbutinagoodway

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Lots of @ohheyfromwherever letter-writing and wanderlusting in 2015! Follow along if you want to see where I'm writing from and send me your addy on email, text, FB, whatever if you'd like to get one! Still keeping it up for at least the next 4 months with 168 mailed cards (a few no-send casualties along the way) and counting. It has been very fun putting some pen to paper and actually taking the time to send some handwritten good vibes to all kinds of people who have hopped through life with me.

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Time traveling hillbilly wearing lady goggles. #radical (at Steamboat Resort)

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On the 3rd Day of Christmas I got Pink Eye!! #thegiftthatkeepsongiving (at The Evergreen Lake House)

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I have never been happier to tuck myself into a quiet window seat than after this morning's hour on I-70 with the world's chattiest taxi driver and more than 5 people in two closest security lines who were unaware of the difference between the conveyor belt section of the x-ray line and the section that doesn't move because it's just a metal table. #mobileoffice (at Denver International Airport)

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Wishing you an angsty and artistic Christmas. #tistheseason #treetime

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Only way the new dog pillow could match Odie more is if it came with a Kong and kept on ending up on the bathroom facing the toilet. #costcoftw

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Well yes, it seems I definitely wasted the last 28 years of my life thinking that I'd come across something even better than colored Christmas lights or sunsets. 3-year-older teach excellent lessons, even if they can't eat without smashing half of their food into their face. (at Scottsdale, Arizona)

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F*@& with me (me being a Lay-Z-Boy) and find out. (at Phoenix, Arizona)

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Happy Thanksgiving, Ya Filthy Animal. #yepthosearemyfingerliketoessmashedintomyface (at Phoenix, Arizona)

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AGGGHHHH how do you look so much like an adorable grumpy old man who can't remember where he put his pipe!?! I am sorry in advance to my neighbor for kidnapping his dog. (at Historic Sunnyside Neighborhood)

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R.I.P. Greg The Frog...

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"Goh, Payck,Goh!" @loyd_culvert @bmoneymajor #greenbaypackers #gopackgo

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Pre Game Warm-Ups. Some prankster in the locker room hid Odie's cleats. #gopackgo #packers #cheeseheadforlife

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Preparing for the Hobbes Pounce #humannumbertwoishome #airedalesofinstagram #mansbestfriend