L'affaire Jane Eyre | 
pickPosting my fifth and final #trappedinaspookyhouse review just in time for #snowedin, haha.
This was fun and I enjoyed it, but somehow it felt a little flimsy to me. The gimmicks and wordplay were great and the worldbuilding was very creative, but the plot and particularly the love story needed a little more polishing. Maybe the later books in the series do better with this? Let me know. Anyway I‘m glad I read it; it‘s been on my TBR for years.
#hyggehourreadathon
With the darkness falling earlier, it‘s easier to get into my hygge space by 8 pm!
My final selection from #trappedinaspookyhouse
#weekendreads
I feel like a true Chicagoian now 😂 I‘m in my garage with my camping chair, fleece blanket and drink ready for the brave trick-or-treaters who come out on this blustery Halloween
so-soThe Eyre Affair was a mixed bag for me. I liked the small details Fforde worked in, like the dodos revived from extinction to be kept as house pets and the character named ‘Jack Schitt‘. I didn‘t like the gratuitous gun violence and the casual fat phobia and ableism (which probably would‘ve flown unchecked twenty years ago, but not so much today). Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-eyre-affair-jasper-fforde/
Seiously fun, with puns and crazyness galore. I especially loved Braxton Hicks. But there could have been more dodos!
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1. I do... it's been a LONG time.
2. It's tagged and it's quirky but I loved it.
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First day of break calls for a new book! This one is first in a series about literary detectives. The time travel, literary allusions, and quirky wordplay have me thinking I might read the whole series over break. 🤓📚
pickSecond try and this time Thursday and I got along better.
Weird Urban Fantasy with lots of f/punny names where the MC has to help protect the characters from well known novels.
Low pick.
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pickOne of my favorite books! I was disappointed when the series ended.
The villain of the Eyre Affair, Acheron Hades, is an extremely crafty and evil individual, who will stop at nothing to eliminate threats to him and also become one of the most well-known evil people in the world. He desires to commit extreme crimes that will make him massively infamous and hated, and many of them are extremely elaborate and extract extreme reactions out of people. He also personally antagonizes the protagonists, and knows what ma
The conflict in the book is between the protagonist and an self professed incredibly evil person by the name of Acheron Hades, who desires to spread suffering and misfortune around the world simply because he can. He is also incredibly smart and has strange powers that have manipulated the protagonist, Thursday Next, into doing actions which sabotage her mission of capturing and murdering Acheron Hades. He also has numerous accomplices, and is ver
It's pretty good. I'm familiar with the author's past work and I loved reading it. The characters in this book are pretty realistic and are easy to relate with, and Next herself is a pretty intriguing protagonist herself. This is a book everyone should read, if only for the world-building and general humor of it, which is both extremely effective and does not overstay it's welcome. A very ten out of ten book, and I look forward to reading the othe
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I can‘t recall which round of #LMPBC I read this in, but I‘ve loved being introduced to new genres and authors. This is my choice for E! #AlphabetGame #letterE
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Such a fun start to a series! Thursday Next is a great character and I loved how this book used literature within the story. It's whimsical, magical, mysterious, and just an overall good read.
I'm excited to see what adventure awaits in the next book.
pickAdd being a literary detective to my list of dream jobs! This novel was a lot more complex and deep than I anticipated. I really enjoyed it. Fforde‘s use of wit and literary references makes for a clever plot and a cast of characters with a lot of heart. Thursday Next is a spunky and wry protagonist, and one that I can‘t wait to be with again. Plus, what is more wonderful than the idea of entering the books we know and love. 4⭐️ #wintergames2021
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1. I go through spurts. I usually journal in January and it fizzles by March.
2. October started as a good reading month then it went downhill quickly. I've been binge watching Chicago Fire on Netflix. How did I not know about this show?
3. Today I am grateful for a beautiful evening walk with my family.
Thanks for the tag @DinoMom . @Eggs . Wanna play @DebbieGrillo
so-soAn interesting quirky premise - an alternative timeline where literature crime is a lucrative business. However (and it could be my current headspace), I found the book a bit too meta and unfocused for my reading space right now.
bailedI could not get into this one. I usually love alternate histories but in this case I felt like I was coming in partway through the story and it was hard to get caught up on things. Like I should know details and characters already but I didn't understand. It made my brain hurt.
bailedNot the book for me right now. Giving myself permission to skip it.
Today‘s #LittensDressedinBlood prompt:
“Time Warp”
This whole series is a total time warp. Very quirky and bookish.
pickWhat an interesting world that jasper fforde has built for the Thursday Next Series. Lots of interesting happenings in this first book. I am looking forward to reading more of this series.
pickAn old favourite I can keep going back to. Wonderfully absurd, and as The New York Post so aptly put it: when it comes to Jasper Fforde, “don‘t ask, just read it.”
#LLSS What a beautiful Box to open this morning. So many great books to read over the summer. And that version of The Library Book! Wonderful! Thank you so much @BookNAround for everything it's all wonderful.
panI just couldn‘t get into this book, the pacing felt off it was quirky but not in a way that I found enjoyable. I kept hoping things would come together for me but ultimately it wasn‘t the right book.
Once again, genuinely not understanding how it‘s time for a new list! #bookspinbingo
Oh, New Zealand. Land of mullets, bell bottoms and vintage signs that have probably been there since the 80s. How better to laze on a Saturday afternoon than with a book set in the 80s and the cheesiest power ballads on stereo?
Congrats @TheLudicReader on your milestone (and for managing to catch your Litfluence number at exactly 10K!) 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1. The Eyre Affair. I return to Thursday Next every few years when I need some fun, light, silliness!
2. The Outlander by Gil Adamson. It's one of my favourites and I feel that not enough people know it! The release and awards buzz for The Ridgerunner definitely helped raise its profile this past year!
so-soYears ago I read the second book in this series. I love the concept of the series. I found the second book confusing (probably because I had missed the first book where they really explained what was happening). I tried this one hoping I would love it. But it was still not my favorite. Sigh. It is my #bookspinbingo read so yay for that.
pickOne of a kind series. I'm going to go back for a reread some day. Probably should buy them all!
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The Thursday Next series is a brilliant invention! She‘s a literary detective—jumping into famous literature to solve crime and set the record straight. Combination of mystery, literature and comedy. How could I not love it!
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Jasper Fforde describes his books as absurdist fiction and it is all that and more...funny, quirky, clever, fascinating...his imagination is unbelievable.
When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte‘s novel, Thursday Next must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
pickI wasn‘t sure about this at first but it grew on me. Quirky. I want to got back and read Jane Eyre now.
Quarantine bedside table...
so-soThis was enjoyable, but not quite the mind-blowing experience I had been led to believe. I'll probably read the rest of the series eventually, but I'm not dying to get them right away. Still recommended for any classical literature buffs who also like police procedurals.
Mycroft was feeding his bookworms in the workshop when Polly entered; she had just completed some mathematical calculations of almost incomprehensible complexity for him.
"I have the answer you wanted, Crofty, my love," she said, sucking the end of a well-worn pencil.
"And that is?" asked Mycroft, busily pouring prepositions onto the bookworms, who devoured the abstract food greedily.
"Nine."
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I felt like an old favourite today!
📕 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
✒️ George Eliot
🎥 Ever After
🎶 Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
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