build a casket for my tears, I'm haunted

[mercuriazs]

Maybe I'm not as smart as I think I am???

Comments

[ceitfianna]

Wow, my brain is odd because my first thought is I should reread Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange as that was a book that did footnotes well.

[mercuriazs]

I've heard I should read that one!

[ceitfianna]

Not everyone likes her stuff but I adore it. She writes in the style of Austen but with magic and fairies and women and people who don't quite fit right in society and academic study of magic. There are competing journals of magic where arguments happen.

My current copy is with my mother as I want her to read it but I may have to just bring it back with me next visit.

I'm on my I think second copy as I first read it on a flight to New Zealand and couldn't carry it back.

[walksbyherself]

I'm seconding this recommendation!

JS&MN is every bit as dense as House, but in a much less frantic way. The world building is really beautiful and yes, the footnotes are epic.

[batyatoon]

okay I cracked up at the nonsequitur about Johnny Truant's narrator-unreliability

[silveraspen]

I tried to warn you about the footnotes...

*sends a LOT of tea*

[mercuriazs]

GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL

[adiva_calandia]

ahahaha I didn't even follow like a quarter of the footnotes, I think. I SALUTE YOUR DEDICATION, SIR.