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En route from Berlin to Munich, I read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, probably the most talked about fantasy novel of the year due to much advance praise by a lot of people, including Neil Gaiman. I found myself in a curious condition as a reader: Utterly charmed and strangely indifferent at the same time. Or rather, I was indifferent to the two title characters. Not because they're badly drawn, mind you.

( A review in which your faithful correspondant muses and compares )

German TV has started to show Scrubs, and I watched the first episode since

sabine101 spoke of it in such glowing terms, and I still live in hope she'll be rejoining the lj world once the ~~battle against the forces of darkness~~ American elections are over. Said first episode was funny, but as the last hospital show a friend made me watch was a British one (starring Martin Shaw), and hence had actors who did not look like they were all out of a modelling agency, I was distracted more than once by the "where are the normal-looking people?" question.

I also finished watching my Original Trilogy Star Wars DVDs, more or less. Not wanting to bore everyone with a recap of my SW opinions yet again, I'll just point to this old one. Now, some additional thoughts and observations caused by watching Empire of Dreams and the OT with the audio commentaries on:

( Of film makers, fathers and sons )

Lastly, all the SW rewatching has rewakened my fanfic thirst, so I was glad to see

fernwithy wrote a new vignette about Anakin and Obi-Wan. And

andrastewhite's recent B5 genderswapping reminded me of my old genderswap SW speculation. Some day, I just might tackle this...