Susanna Clarke’s collection of stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu, is a spin-off from her tour-de-force, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I do like her light-hearted, almost archaic way of writing. The illustrations in this book are also marvellous, and I’m pleased that I’d gotten it from The Strand for US$5.
This, I believe, is really the last book I read in 2008. (Or did I finish it on New Year’s? I forget.)
100 books in the past year.
Favourite new finds: Fred Vargas and Peter Temple (both crime writers – one French and the other Australian)
Favourite book, which I should have read earlier: The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula LeGuin
Continued to love: Terry Pratchett
Realised anew the beauty of: Short stories
Got tired of: Haruki Murakami and Alexander McCall Smith
