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Those of you who don't read Neil Gaiman's livejournal or missed the plug for it there might still be interested in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (the link goes to the book's official website.)

Yay for nifty-sounding new books! And it comes out in the U.S. on September 8, just in time to keep me happy when I start frothing at the mouth for The Dark Tower, which is scheduled to appear on September 21, ironically enough the same day as The System of the World in case you didn't have enough inches (or pounds) of reading material already. And if I get really obsessive, I can go see the author, Susanna Clarke, at Powell's on September 28. She sounds like a badass, in a quiet writer geek kind of way. Besides the official Jonathan Strange website, there's a good article about her and the book in the New York Times Magazine (you'll have to sign in to the Times site to read it, though). Also the first chapter of Strange is available there, but I haven't read it yet. Still, yay books!