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Have been quite busy offline fighting off some kind of stomach bug and reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which I am, as usual, probably the last of my crowd to read. It is wonderful. It's a good deal like the fantasy novel Jane Austen might have written, had her inclinations been in that direction. It's definitely causing me to have a hard time not using "shewn" and "chuse" in day-to-day writing! (I've always thought "shewn" a tremendously useful word anyway.)

Today I am making kamameshi (Japanese one-pot rice casserole) and using bamboo shoots and burdock root in cooking for the first time. I also got some mountain potato, but have yet to figure out what I want to make with it.

Anya is singing a little "I have a paper bag handle, but you should get the fishing pole and play with me" song.

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I just finished JS & Mr N. Very good, although I think I might have done better to skip some of the footnotes, as they disrupted the flow of reading the main narrative, and not all of them were interesting enough to be worth the disruption. (But many of them were, so I had to read them all anyway.)