Just a meme

Ok, I really wanted to post about this book, which is in every thing most congenial and all that, but before I could get around to composing a really clever entry I ran across a meme from sara_merry99.

Your brain: 60% interpersonal, 100% visual, 120% verbal, and 120% mathematical!

Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers.

Anyway, back to the book. This is one of three books I've read recently after seeing them discussed by athenais, the other two being Southern Ladies and Gentlemen (along with Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, which was even better) and the book variously known as Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization or Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle, depending on the binding.

I've really enjoyed all of these books. Temperament reminded me that I'd been manically interested in tuning systems some 7 to 5 years ago, briefly, and Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady was a hoot. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of those things one could get completely swallowed up in. I appreciated getting to see various opinions on it before I read it; it helped to know both that there will be wondrous goodness in the last third of it (upon which I'm about to embark), as well as that the best way to read it is to allow oneself to be sucked into the world.

Happily, it appears I'm one of those who is sucked into its world, and it never got to the point of seeming to drag on, for me. I look forward to the last third of it, which is apparently worthwhile even to those for whom it does.