Day: Jan 9, 2025

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 7

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Goodreads Blurb: The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation’s past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country.

Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange.

Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A story of war, love, magic, fairies, and bitchy – slightly gay – magicians in regency England. I don’t think I’ve ever loved a book more.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Seventh Love of their Life

Look, I know I’ve been very negative on this so far – I can’t help it if a large segment of the men on this show are trash – so with this post, I’m going to do something that may feel very wrong for a Gilmore Girls fan to do. I’m going to be nice about Christopher.

Christopher Hayden

Look I’m not saying that Christopher wasn’t trash, or that he wasn’t a crappy dad, or a terrible boyfriend or just all around awful person. I just want to not bog myself down in nothing but negativity until I can’t move, that way lies Season 6 territory. And speaking of season 6 – it was a bit shit wasn’t it? People harp on about season 7 but honestly if you don’t count the revival, season 6 is the most shit of all the seasons. Mainly because it made me hate all the characters, but especially Luke. Luke was a terrible boyfriend during this season, and I know he was going through a lot but that really can’t excuse everything. And the way he treated Lorelei, particularly things like deliberately keeping her and his newly discovered daughter April separate, and refusing even passive parenting advice from the experienced mother he is dating because he doesn’t want to be outshone by her. Telling her too his face that he’s afraid once April and Lorelei develop a bond that’s it for him. His daughter will no longer have any interest in her (again) newly discovered father.

I want to hit this man so hard sometimes. It gets so bad that by the end of that stint of their relationship, it’s difficult for a viewing to even remember what Lorelei’s smile even looks like. So when Luke and Lorelei’s relationship implodes – yes, partly thanks to her sleeping with Christopher – and she starts her poorly conceived romance with Christopher, I was happy for her. Do you know why? She was actually smiling. At least at the beginning.

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