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The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 382 pages, 2006

Rating: 9/10

Reason for Reading: Bet you can’t read just one.

Synopsis: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, along with the other members of the Nursery Crime Division, is hot on the trail of a fresh crime, this time involving a missing journalist nicknamed ‘Goldy,’ some bears, and - just in case you thought you knew where this was going - cucumbers and the escaped mental patient, the Gingerbreadman. It turns out the real mystery began when Goldy left the house of the three bears and wandered into a minefield of trouble…

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The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 386 pages, 2005

Rating: 9/10

Reason for Reading: I’ve loved all of Fforde’s books.

Synopsis: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…or did he? Detective Inspector Jack Spratt is looking into the possibility that the hard-living, womanizing egg was actually murdered, with possible motives being jealousy, revenge, greed, pure evil. The (grossly underfunded) Nursery Crime Division, which also includes an alien and Sergeant Mary Mary, will have to battle to restore justice to their community.

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Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 389 pages, 2004

Rating: 9/10

Reason for Reading: I love Fforde, and if reading his Thursday Next stories is as close as I can come to living inside a book, I will be one content bookworm.

Synopsis: Thursday Next is a woman with the rather strange capability of being able to jump into books and interact with the characters, but after living in a peaceful book for a few years in order to give birth to her now-toddler son Friday, she decides it’s time to rejoin the real world. Her husband, Landen, has been eradicated and officially never existed anywhere but in Thursday’s mind, and she’s decided it’s time to go up against the Goliath Corporation to demand he be allowed back into existence. She’s also got to stop the book-burning Yorrick Kaine from becoming dictator to ensure the world doesn’t come to an end, and her time-traveling father tells her the only way to prevent this is…for her town to win a croquet tournament. Don’t ask. Just prepare yourself for a wild ride.

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The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

Monday, September 15th, 2003

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Trade, 360 pages, 2003

Rating: 9/10

Reason for Reading: Loved The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book.

Synopsis: In this third book of the Thursday Next series, Thursday is sent to the Well of Lost Plots to avoid detection by the evil Aornis during her pregnancy by her husband Landen, who’s been erased in all but her memories. Living in the pages of an unpublished book, Thursday plunges deep into the world of fiction - the fiction that goes on in books between chapters - and must save herself as well as the fictional characters that she is sworn to protect.

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Archive for the ‘Literary Sci-Fi’ Category

The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 382 pages, 2006

Rating: 9/10

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 386 pages, 2005

Rating: 9/10

Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Hardcover (available in trade), 389 pages, 2004

Rating: 9/10

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

Reviewed by L.D.Y.

Trade, 360 pages, 2003

Rating: 9/10

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