Meg Ermer’s Reviews > Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell > Status Update

The Piranesi setting Easter egg was cool

Mr. Norrell is quite unbearable but I must admit that I, like him, also have a certain reticence about lending out beloved editions of my favorite books.

The dry British humor makes the pages fly by.

“The intention of the French was to cruise about the Bay of Biscay looking for British ships to capture or, if they were unable to do that, to prevent the British from doing any thing which they appeared to want to do.”