One of those around te water cooler conversations...

[roseembolism]

So while in the kitchen at work, one of my coworkers noted that I had the new Diana Wynne Jones book, and asked me if I had read any others.  Bemused, I allowed that I had read pretty much everything she had written, and so after talking a bit about DWJ books, she mentioned that she was surprised to see I had read "Sorcery and Cecilia", since that was more in the genre of regency romances like say, those of Jane Austin.  

At that point I had to tell her I liked Jane Austen because of her snarkiness.  She laughed, saying she'd never heard of Jane Austin being called snarky.  Even though, well, Jane Austen really IS snarky, in a mannered way.

I like my work.  It has people who have DWJ novels on order.