#js&mn
I'm rewatching JS&MN, so I want to be insufferable about two Johns again

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November 24, 2024 at 9:32 PM
January 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
js & mn is . everything to me. babygirl ass book
March 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
it's a better portrayal than Babel *of colonialism and race* in the context of 19th century England, which is particularly embarrassing because these are the central themes of Babel and side themes of JS&MN.
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
January 26, 2026 at 8:30 PM
a perfect little book but JS+MN is a perfect big book
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Mr Segundus and Mr Childermass from JS&MN because I CAN #johnsquared
April 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
seven partnpact was originally a js&mn rpg
March 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If FOR SOME REASON you decide to follow me after my JS&MN posts, be warned I WILL draw Childermass and Segundus kissing. Soon.
November 26, 2024 at 10:35 AM
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
have bought the ebook, please join me in my new obscure historical fantasy bookclub.

i think i should make a masterlist of books with JS&MN comparisons…
June 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Dear Lord this is such a poor way to approach JS&MN which is delightful precisely because it is very much written in the style of the time period it's observing, where social etiquette and manners were much more important than magic
This thought inculcated by many years of conversations I've had with supposed fans of The Lord of the Rings but brought about specifically by a conversation about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in which "the story" was fun but only happened in the last third of the book.
December 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I enjoy a digression more than many folks — Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is one of my favorite books — but I think the digression still has to Do A Thing. In JS&MN, all the footnotes add up into an entirely different historical story happening beneath the main plot.
we need a name for this: the 100-150 pages in some KU books that are there strictly for page count, those meandering scenes that go no where.
February 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Piranesi is spare where JS&MN is florid. It shares some sensibilities, but it is elegant in a way that JS&MN is not. Mind you, I love JS&MN, so please apply windage.
August 18, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Who has read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke? I just finished it. I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. No spoilers but I didn't like it nearly as much as JS&MN, though I enjoyed the ending.
September 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Kidding aside, Kuang said that she wanted Babel to be in "conversation" with JS&MN. So she adopted its tone, settings and conventions but uses them to explicitly instruct the reader (whom she does not trust) that racism and colonialism are bad.
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On ep 6 of JS and MN and wow they are just radically reducing the Greysteels’ role and cutting to the chase with them, can’t say I really object
May 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
8) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. More compact than JS&MN, but no less staggering. Deeply moving and incredibly well drawn, about how we process trauma and how we put the pieces back together of who we are.
January 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I went with JS&MN for the book not because it's a favorite but because I've been thinking about rereading it. Maybe I'd feel like doing the footnotes on a desert island.
August 31, 2023 at 12:21 PM
📚 Absolutely adored Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell! Loved Piranesi too.

You may want to check out her The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories. It has a JS&MN flavor. . . .
September 19, 2026 at 10:11 PM
JS&MN is my favourite novel ever, so it gets my vote!
January 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM
mnとjsが幼馴染なんですよね〜
May 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM