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Diligent search through my past booklogs does not turn any notes up from the first time I read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which means it must have been pre-2007 which is when I started keeping track of my reads. It did turn up a promise that a reread of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell would be "coming soon to a booklog near you!" from ... July 2015, which tells you how to trust my promises.

Anyway! Going into my reread of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, here is what I EXTREMELY VAGUELY remembered from that first pre-2007 read:

- Mr. Norrell is a stuffy, awkward little man who makes bad magical choices
- Jonathan Strange is less awkward but possibly makes equally bad magical choices
- something unfortunate and fairy-related happens to Arabella Strange, who does not deserve it
- Jonathan Strange fixes it but makes extremely unwise choices in the process
- Stephen Black, a former slave, spends the entire book using his top-notch buttling skills to be polite to a fairy who's ruining his life, which somehow saves the day and also critiques colonialism
- footnotes???

which is why here, now, I am surprised and discomfited to find myself with an EXTREMELY LARGE number of feelings and opinions on an EXTREMELY LARGE number of things, including all of the above but also including:

( this is an incomplete list of scenes that made me feel things and can thus be assumed to be spoilery )