Hugo awards
Aug. 8th, 2005 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFor those who care, Susanna Clarke won this year's Hugo Award for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which I'm currently in the process of reading. It's pretty cool - it's sort of a cross between an early 19th century novel a la Jane Austen and a Neil Gaiman or possibly Alan Garner type magical realist novel.
My biggest problem with it as book is that it's so damned huge, especially in hardback. I'm perpetually worried that, while reading it in bed, I'm going to loose my grip and it's going to pin me to the mattress in such a way that my nerdy, atrophied muscles are going to prove to be too weak to let me to get up again and I'll waste away, crushed beneath a leviathan tome.
My biggest problem with it as book is that it's so damned huge, especially in hardback. I'm perpetually worried that, while reading it in bed, I'm going to loose my grip and it's going to pin me to the mattress in such a way that my nerdy, atrophied muscles are going to prove to be too weak to let me to get up again and I'll waste away, crushed beneath a leviathan tome.
