An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ~Augustine Birrell
Monday, February 28, 2011
A Chelsea Cain Weekend Reading Binge!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
New Releases 3/01/11
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Pre-Pub Book Buzz: One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Once again, The New York Times bestselling author has a field day, gleefully bending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore. Fforde transports readers into a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination.
It is a time of unrest in the Bookworld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. However, a week before the Peace Talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the Realworld, or, is this something more sinister?
All is not lost however. Living at the quiet end of Speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, who is attempting to keep her own small four-book series both respectful to her illustrious namesake and far from the grim spectre of being remaindered.
Despite her desire to stay away from the spotlight, written Thursday is asked by Jurisfiction to investigate a novel that has suffered an in-read breakup and deposited a narrative debris-field halfway across the Bookworld. It is not quite so straightforward: Someone has ground the ISBN numbers from the wreckage, and all of a sudden, the mysterious Men in Plaid want her dead.
As the hunt for answers takes her from the Council of Genres to Fan-Fiction and from Comedy to Vanity publishing, written Thursday realizes that Real Thursday had been investigating a plot fiendish enough to be killed for. But who is responsible?
Only a trip up the Mighty Metaphoric River and a visit to the hideously frightening Realworld can provide the answers.
With her clockwork butler Sprockett and her Designated Love Interest Whitby Jett, Thursday has to get grips with her inability to match up to her Namesake’s talent, and prove herself to the one person she respects more than anyone else: The real her…
Fans, or Ffans as we like to call them, will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back.
Yay! Now for all you out there who may not have read this series yet, you do have to read them in order. They are:
The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
One of Our Thursdays is Missing
I suggest you go out and make your local bookstore very happy and buy them all -- or you can buy just the first two. And yes, you have to buy the first two -- I have to admit that even for a fan, Eyre Affair is so completely unlike anything else out there. You have to get into the Fforde groove, but then you won't want to stop, so you might as well buy the set : )
Learning to Swim Winner
Friday, February 25, 2011
So Close the Hand of Death
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
New Paranormal Must Read!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Ooh, I Missed One!
Monday, February 21, 2011
It's Monday
Sunday, February 20, 2011
New Releases 2/22/11
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Pre-Pub Book Buzz: Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells
Thursday, February 17, 2011
It's Been a Long Week
Sunday, February 13, 2011
New Releases 2/15/11
Tourquai by Tim Davys -- third in the Mollisan Town Quartet
Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh
A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer
Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter by Simon Brett
So Close the Hand of Death by JT Ellison -- 6th Taylor Jackson
Murder for Hire: My Life as the Country's Most Successful Undercover Agent by Jack Ballentine (paperback)
Desert of Souls by Howard A. Jones
Raven's Bride by Lenore Hart
Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting -- Body Finder #2
On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt
Outside In by Maria V. Snyder