So my entertainment for the long long month of March has been reading the Thursday Next series, by Welsh author Jasper Fforde. This is a really fun and wacky series of adventure/police novels set in an alternate version of England starting in 1984 and spanning almost through the present and starring Literary Detective Thursday Next, a spunky and engaging heroine. These books are really a hoot, and they're also totally absurd and ridiculous. I think this is what makes them so much fun, but if you don't have a taste for the bizarre, I might not recommend them. They are full of fun literary references, which a bibliophile like me particularly appreciates, but even if you haven't read most of the books referenced (and I certainly haven't) you can still follow the plot with ease and enjoyment.
Here's a full list of titles in the series:
The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
First Among Sequels
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
The Woman Who Died a Lot
*The series is not yet complete, but these are all the books published to date.
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