{"id":69,"date":"2009-08-26T14:38:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:07:37","slug":"review-jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell-by-susanna-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14201.Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/410A553CR8L._SX106_.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14201.Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell\">Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr Norrell<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8842.Susanna_Clarke\">Susanna Clarke<\/a><\/p>\n<p> My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/38743408\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p> I have seen so many people praise this book that I just had to read it. I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what they found so fascinating about it. I managed to slog through it, but I really wouldn&#8217;t say I couldn&#8217;t put it down. I kept reading and hoping I would have some sort of &#8220;aha!&#8221; moment, but it never happened for me. It was just okay as far as I&#8217;m concerned. It was well written, in the style of the period, but the plot and story arc had little conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have seen so many people praise this book that I just had to read it. I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what they found so fascinating about it. I managed to slog through it, but I really wouldn&#8217;t say I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}