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Hooray for celery
May I recommend to all of you, as was done for me, a book that I can only describe as wonderfully diverting? In point of fact, even if the answer is no I'm still going to advise you to pick up Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. On the condition, of course, that you don't feel the need to stick your nose up in the air because they're both magicians. And maybe even if you do, because they're both 19th century British magicians. And because they say things like "chuse." And because Mr. Norrell hordes books and doesn't want the pages to get dirty. One day, perhaps, someone more eloquent than I will describe French House's kitchen as well as is done with M'sieur Minervois' abode: "There was an elderly bunch of celery that had lived too long and too promiscuously in close companionship with the charcoal for its own good."