To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
To say nothing of the dog! This book kind of broke my brain, on account of it’s about time travel and there is nothing simple about time travel and to make it worse Connie Willis invents a time travel science and when you actually try to explain time travel you are going to make brains … Read more
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (13 August)
-contented sigh- I love this book. You should, too. Go read it, now. What? That’s not enough information, you say? Well. Fine. I first read this book three years ago while in New Zealand and had to tear myself away from the pages to go hang out with people in Auckland, which is one of … Read more
First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde (5 January &mdash 6 January)
This came in for me yesterday at the library, and even though I was a few pages into another book, I couldn’t help but read this instead. Love me some Thursday Next. The events of this book pick up 14 years after those of the previous one. Thursday is now 52 and settled into her … Read more
Something Rotten, by Jasper Fforde (25 November — 28 November)
Something Rotten is the last of the first four books of the Thursday Next series… I figure that since Jasper took a few years off, I can take a break now, too. This was definitely a great conclusion for the set… basically, a whole bunch of odd things that happened in the previous books were … Read more
The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde (22 November — 25 November)
The Well of Lost Plots is the third book in the wonderful Thursday Next series in which our hero, Thursday, vanquishes foes who seek to upend literature. The previous book focused on time travelling; this one is mostly about book travelling. Thursday has entered the world of Jurisfiction, those in charge of policing the fiction … Read more
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde (8 November)
This is the second in the Thursday Next series of awesomeness, and I must say this one is even better than the first. After sending away a Goliath Corporation employee to live in a copy of The Raven, the company is understandably upset and asks Thursday to go back and get him out, please. She … Read more
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde (28 August − 1 September)
The premise behind this book is an alternate universe in which weird things happen regularly − time gets out of joint, extinct animals can be cloned, religious fighting is replaced by “Who was the real Shakespeare” fighting. As in this universe, the government has a lot of bureaus to control its constituents, among these SpecOps … Read more
