Sep. 12th, 2020

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Susanna Clarke: ‘I was cut off from the world, bound in one place by illness’

I thought this was pretty good: it's framed as a Story About An Author Dealing With Life Stuff rather than A Story About A Disabled Person Overcoming Adversity or whatever. I mean it's pretty short and fluffy, but her talking about spending ages unsuccessfully trying to continue her previous creative work before giving up and finding something she can do was very relatable.

Ironically, one reason I didn't get very far into Jonathon Strange And Mr Norrel is that my cfs makes it harder for me to read dense prose, I'll be curious to see if I find her new book more readable, or if her style stays the same (which would be fine, not every book is for me)

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