Vacation Update

[subplotkudzu]

Head colds are not gifts to be shared in the Christmas season. Out annual trip to Camden, ME for their "Christmas by the Sea" festival fell upon hard times when Elizabeth got a head on Thursday, gave it to Rachel for Friday inyo Saturday and then gave it to me for Sunday into Monday. The town was fine, the inn was lovely as always, but the illness cast a pall over everything.

The only upside has been the chance to plow through _Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell_, which has turned out to be as good as people had told me it was.

Comments

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Yes, very much so. I'm a couple hundred pages from the end and the various plot threads are wending neatly towards a conclusion - plus, I can't tell whether it will end well or badly, which is something I rather respect.

[thismustbetheplace-rjs.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I'll have to finish it one of these days then. I enjoyed her style quite a bit, but had no sense of urgency to move ahead with the book because nothing actually seemed to be happening for the longest dang time....

[mamasays01.livejournal.com]

I had the same trouble with it. Lots of flavor text but no particular direction. I may have to give it another try.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

There is definitely a plot. I've read the book twice, and I love it. But, I am not blind to its faults, and as John Clute said, every single scene in the book could use editing.