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| Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in December? | | 57 | 06nwingert, Yesterday 10:10am | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : mstrust's reads for 2009 | | 162 | mstrust, Wednesday 1:36pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's Best of Your Best, 2009 | | 330 | bonniebooks, Wednesday 11:44am | |
| 50 Book Challenge : elliepotten's - take 2 | | 146 | msf59, Tuesday 9:51pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : 50 books for me this year | | 57 | pj77, Sunday 12:09am | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Part Four in the Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy of FlossieT's Common Reading Confessions | | 207 | avatiakh, Saturday 11:58pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : CompSki's Books! | | 112 | compskibook, Saturday 7:42pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Rocketjk's 49.49 book challenge for 2009 | | 224 | laytonwoman3rd, Friday 9:08pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Kerian's 2009 book challenge | | 73 | Kerian, December 3 | |
| 999 Challenge : atlargeinthewrld's 999 attempt | | 51 | atlargeintheworld, November 26 | |
| Book talk : A STUPID GAME TO PLAY......OLD ONE IS TOO LONG TOO! | | 321 | hemlokgang, November 24 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : elliepotten's 50 book challenge 2009 | | 223 | elliepotten, November 13 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books redux (Life is short. Don't read crap.) | | 232 | sanja, November 4 | |
| Trollope lovers unite or fight : Neither Barset nor Palliser | | 141 | digifish_books, October 30 | |
| 999 Challenge : Sanddancer's | | 127 | bonniebooks, October 29 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : applebook1's reading list 2009 | | 91 | applebook1, October 22 | |
| Serious Series Lovers : Just to get started... | | 39 | atlargeintheworld, October 9 | |
| The Green Dragon : People we know game, part the fifth | | 547 | Tid, October 6 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : @51: The TBR challenge | | 180 | Robertgreaves, October 2 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : belva; 3rd times a charm | | 216 | whitewavedarling, September 13 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's 50 book challenge in 2009, chapter 2 | | 265 | nannybebette, September 13 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : atlargeinthewrld's 50 Books list (so-far) | | 33 | billiejean, September 6 | |
| The Green Dragon : Amazing August Acquisitions 2009 | | 101 | JohnAdcoxCarolBales, September 2 | |
| The Green Dragon : August Reads 2009 | | 181 | Billion, September 1 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : allthesedarnbooks' 2009 reads | | 249 | allthesedarnbooks, August 29 | |
| 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : jfetting's 100 book challenge - 2009 | | 270 | jfetting, August 15 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 18, 2009? | | 274 | morriss003, July 31 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of June 27, 2009? | | 259 | ashleywolf, July 28 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 11, 2009? | | 268 | FicusFan, July 18 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home- June 2009 | | 331 | mckait, July 1 | |
| The Green Dragon : June Reads 2009 | | 180 | readafew, June 30 | |
| Lectures des francophones : Arvoitus 2009 | | 49 | Arvoitus, June 27 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of June 13 2009? | | 248 | koalamom, June 20 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of 2 May. 2009 | | 226 | SomeGuyInVirginia, June 5 | |
| British & Irish Crime Fiction : Message Board | | 162 | wonderlake, May 30 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 25 April 2009 | | 212 | Breez, May 28 | |
| Hogwarts Express : I HAVE read X, but HAVE NOT read Y (III) | | 249 | elbakerone, May 26 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : My 75 books in 2009 challenge | | 107 | suslyn, May 13 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Favorite Detectives | | 185 | jnwelch, May 12 | |
| Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Know of anything similar to Jasper Fforde? | | 11 | CD1am, May 7 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : : What You Are Reading the Week of 11 April 2009 | | 196 | FicusFan, April 18 | |
| The Green Dragon : Drop a Word, Add a Word | | 750 | clamairy, April 17 | |
| FantasyFans : Humorous Fantasy recs? | | 40 | amberwitch, April 17 | |
| The Green Dragon : Book Discussion: The Eyre Affair ~CAUTION ~ Contains SPOILERS | | 90 | cal8769, April 14 | |
| Old Soak Book Club : Your top (most re-read) 5-10 books of all time | | 3 | Penethea, March 19 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in February part II | | 229 | Neverwithoutabook, March 10 | |
| Fairy Tales Retold : what do you look for in fairytale retellings? | | 5 | Hermee, March 1 | |
| FantasyFans : What's Your favorite fantasy book in 2008? | | 31 | CurrerBell, February 18 | |
| Audiobooks : What are you listening to now? | | 239 | Sandydog1, February 6 | |
| 999 Challenge : xicanti's 999 | | 19 | xicanti, February 6 | |
| Hogwarts Express : I got an Early Reviewer book!! | | 155 | elbakerone, January 27 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : erinmontagues 2009 challange | | 2 | billiejean, January 23 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game, part 18 | | 390 | moibibliomaniac, January 18 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 3 January 2009 | | 213 | Biyismom, January 12 | |
| 999 Challenge : Kettricken's 999 challenge | | 20 | Kettricken, January 12 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Size Matters | | 18 | varielle, January 12 | |
| FantasyFans : My favourite reads of 2008. | | 20 | DWWilkin, January 9 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : KPlatypus: Going for 150 in 2008 | | 100 | Kplatypus, January 8 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : A 50-Book List from rocketjk in San Francisco | | 67 | billiejean, January 5 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 27 Decembeer 2008 | | 175 | thioviolight, January 4 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Stringcat3's 2008 list | | 45 | stringcat3, January 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 20 December 2008? | | 160 | torontoc, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : My First Book | | 49 | LA12Hernandez, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Can I really get to 50?? | | 39 | TheBoltChick, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : craso's books for 2008 | | 65 | craso, December 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Shannon's list | | 89 | billiejean, December 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--November 2008 | | 265 | jdthloue, November 2008 | |
| Book talk : Game ---> PICK A BOOK YOU HAVEN'T READ YET | | 391 | hemlokgang, November 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : kaelirenee's 100 challenge | | 70 | kaelirenee, November 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? August, 2008. Number 2. | | 410 | IaaS, November 2008 | |
| Hogwarts Express : Peeves' Pet Peeves | | 114 | kirbyowns, October 2008 | |
| Book talk : Funniest books you've ever read? | | 62 | dhaupt, October 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : September Splurges | | 116 | momom248, October 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Hairballsrus's Nifty Fifty and Beyond....Starting Oct. 1rst. | | 119 | Medellia, October 2008 | |
| BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: September 2008 | | 80 | wookiebender, September 2008 | |
| FantasyFans : Fantasy Mysteries | | 20 | Helcura, September 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008 | | 262 | kstutz, September 2008 | |
| Fforde Ffans : Titles | | 15 | wigster102, August 2008 | |
| Book talk : A STUPID GAME TO PLAY. . . THE OLD ONE IS TOO LONG | | 305 | hemlokgang, August 2008 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : What did You Buy today May 2008 Edition | | 35 | Whicker, July 2008 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Manda's 75 | | 46 | Whisper1, July 2008 | |
| Hogwarts Express : What are you reading NOW.......IV | | 303 | Whicker, July 2008 | |
| Go Review That Book! : Game Thread 2 | | 253 | ireed110, June 2008 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #2 | | 188 | karen5l, June 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 June 2008 | | 227 | Talbin, June 2008 | |
| Fforde Ffans : Message Board | | 35 | craso, June 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Irish's | | 53 | fannyprice, May 2008 | |
| Humor : Message Board | | 191 | Sandydog1, May 2008 | |
| Fforde Ffans : The Fourth Bear | | 6 | EmmeryP, May 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2008 | |
| Dormant: Hogwarts Express : My Literary Graveyard for Halloween | | 378 | Kerian, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Hogwarts Express : Self Awareness Sucks | | 55 | Espeon200, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Reading Resolutions : What Did You Read in 2007? | | 23 | Sandydog1, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : annehoekman is turning off the tv! | | 42 | annehoekman, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Guess the book! | | 377 | dreamlikecheese, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 26 January 2008 | | 200 | fersher, February 2008 | |
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| Dormant: 888 Challenge : ShannonMDE | | 1 | ShannonMDE, January 2008 | |
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These are my 5 star books for this year:
The Big Over Easy
The Blind Assassin
Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed
Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones
A Night to Remember
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Robert Shaw: More Than A LIfe
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Madame du B ... ... I deem this the better of the two, though very, very sad. It was a bit shocking.
63. Jasper Fforde: Nursery Crimes: The Big Over Easy (reread)
It was Thanksgiving week and being a good host I needed the humor. Glad that I hadn't read this book in years, I decided to reread The Big ... I finished rereading The Fourth Bear today. I'm not sure if I mentioned it but I reread The Big Over Easy last week, which is what made me decide to reread this one. I wonder what happened to Fforde's plans for another book in the series. The TN series is much preferred, of course. ... some very silly jokes (if a slightly obvious plot). Would suit anyone that enjoyed Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes books (The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear), or perhaps Anthony Horowitz's The Falcon's Malteser. OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
... I've found yet I think!
I haven't started the Thursday Next series yet, but I read one from the Nursery Crime series - The Big Over Easy. It was so clever - Jack Spratt and Mary Mary (NOT contrary) are detectives in the Nursery Crime Division, and have to solve the mystery of the death of H ... ... hodes
22) Bookworm Droppings: An anthology of absurd remarks made by customers in secondhand bookshops by Shaun Tyas
23) The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
24) Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
25) Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
26) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
27) Life on ... DS Mary Mary, of the Nursery Crimes Division (in Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy) I loved The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear. The Eyre Affair is definitely on my wishlist. And my birthday is coming up. I found that with The Big Over Easy - it was a well paced crime novel, just with really cleverly done (and funny!) surreal bits: a blue alien works in the same division, Humpty van Dumpty has been murdered, the three pigs have been found not guilty of killing Mr Wolff... ... finished Wonder Boys, which was rather meh. Chabon's prose is great, but the story did nothing for me. I plan to rad The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde next; I figure it's time for something a little less erudite. ... Bees: A Biography of Honey - The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop
8) Gold by Dan Rhodes
9) The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
10) Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe
My Top 10 Books of All Time
1) The Picture of Dorian Gray by ... ... sadly, it has the movie photos all over it, but if nothing else, the movie reminded me that I wanted to read this.
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. Can't get enough Fforde. ... slow getting going and not quite up to the standard of the first of the two (so far) Jack Spratt Nursery Crime novels, The Big Over Easy. Never fear, Fforde fans, you'll still be happy to read this book. More great, inventive writing. Ooh, poor Jasper Fforde. It took me a while to read The Big Over Easy, but I rather enjoyed it in the end...
To my shame, I have just given up on Pompeii: The Living City by Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. I learned something from the part I managed, but it seemed to skip around a lot ... After much deliberation I have decided to abandon The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. It wasn't 'bad' it was just not compelling to read. I read the first 100 pages then I got bored put it down and read 2 other books. It's a library book which is why I was so reluctant to give up on it.. once I ... I just finished The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. I should probably finish The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde and not let it languish. I'm still reading a chapter of Confederates in the Attic a day. Yesterday I stuck a bookmark in The Big Over Easy by Jasper FForde and moved on to something else. It's not that I don't like it it's just really slow reading for me. I think the mock articles at the beginning of each chapter (which is every 5 or so pages and there are 40 something chapters!) ... ... some of the outdated or colloquial language it's still relevant - there is always an in and out crowd.
I'm now reading The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ... Hinton (had to order that one in)
The lost memoirs of Jane Austen Syrie James
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Big over Easy by Jasper Fforde
then I went to Dymocks for the last time... it was their last day open and everything was reduced to 75% off... I got:
Olive Kitterid ... Welcome home Miss Ellie;
I hope your holiday was everything you hoped it would be.
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde sounds to be a hoot and a madcap of a mystery. That one is definitely going on my TBR listing.
I missed your smiling posts on LT while you were gone but am happy you were ... ... Derbyshire trying to fit everything in before we open. Bloody hell. Anyway, here's my holiday reading catchup:
23) The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
A surreal book following DS Mary Mary and DI Jack Spratt in their investigations of the suspicious death of troubled egg Humperdinck 'H ... ... Cotswolds cottage - cheesecake, books, cups of tea, and the most friendly cat I ever met. While I was away I finished The Big Over Easy, read Ella Enchanted and Angels and Demons, and now I'm over halfway through Breaking Dawn. I was waiting to read the last two until this holiday, ... #72. I enjoyed them..although The Big Over Easy starts quite slowly.. I'm sure you will like them :)
51. Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
rate: ****
52. Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chavelier
rate: **** In the last few days I've read The Last Olympian, The Big Over Easy, and The Fourth Bear. (Lots of train time) Now I'm reading Science Fiction Quotations - which has to be the geekiest book of all time, and I'm LOVING IT
! 48. The Big over Easy by Jasper Fforde
rate: ****
49. The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
rate: **** 1/2
50. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
rate: ****
Oh good, atlargeintheworld I'm glad to read that The Fourth Bear is better then The Big Over Easy. I've been wanting to read it. The Fourth Bear was much better than The Big Over Easy. well worth the time. ... before other books even when they don't really fancy it? Bad timing, perhaps.
I've switched to another library book - The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde - but I've really been looking forward to this one so it should be easier to get stuck into. It's my first by him and I've heard such ... The Big Over Easy is not as good as the Thursday Next series (but nothing is, really). Still, I liked it a lot. I think it's certainly worth reading. I am so glad things are going well for you. I love seeing another book lover succeed.
I've been putting off The Big Over Easy for fear that it won't measure up the Thursday Next series. What's your take, in comparison? just started The Fourth Bear. hope it's funnier than The Big Over Easy was. i'll check out Cooking with Fernet Branca. thanks! #61 The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
I haven't read the Nursery Crimes series yet. I devoured this one in one sitting early this morning. Jasper Fforde is one of those authors whose books I pre-order, and am completely willing to pay for in hardcover, because I always like his stuff. Alwa ... Hi ronincats and thank you-
I did enjoy The Big Over Easy. It's my favorite from him since The Eyre Affair. ... book mark this year! Looks like you like mysteries and travel books. I'm a big Jasper Fforde fan; it looks like you enjoyed The Big Over Easy too. Welcome to the group. ... son****
4. Bachelors Anonymous- Wodehouse***Not his best, but I love Wodehouse.
5. Bartleby-Melville****
6. The Big Over Easy-Fforde*****
7. Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2009*****
8. Black Coffee-Christie A play that worked for its time. **
9. The Blind Assassin- ... I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow, and I think I'll be taking The Big Over Easy and Far From the Madding Crowd with me. I still haven't finished Barchester Towers, but that is a lovely Folio Society book that isn't getting on a plane. I read The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde last night. It was pleasant, but I don't especialy feel that I have improved my lot in life by having read it.
Tonight I will try to get back to a diversion that educates.
Robert ... have many ideas. i'm probably going to read the next Jasper Fforde book, The Fourth Bear, even though i didn't love The Big Over Easy. his writing is interesting even when it's a bit slow. i'm also thinking of picking up some more of the modern Pride and Prejudice sequels. Confessions ... ... About Books
1. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (1/28) 3 stars
2. Fool by Christopher Moore (3/10) 3.5 stars
3. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (3/26) 3.5 stars
4. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Rigler (4/6) 1.5 stars
5. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly ... ... Moore
17. The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
18. He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
19. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
20. The Preservationist by David Maine
Second Quarter: 22 books
April:
21. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Lau ... I finished The Big Over Easy by Jasper Frorde today and really enjoyed his wit. I think it's his best since The Eyre Affair.
#139 CarolynSchroeder- I had a similiar problem recently with No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. She's very imaginative and a good storyteller when ... Big Easy I have completely enjoyed all the clever wordplay in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series and have just started The Big Over Easy...since his work sort of defies description (humor? mystery? sci-fi? fantasy? comedy?) it's a little hard to determine a category to search in to find similar ... ... for all the reasons you listed- what bibliophile doesn't love books about books? I just picked up Fforde's other series Nursery Crimes, but I didn't like it quite as much. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't as spectacularly exciting as Thursday Next. ... Moore
17. The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
18. He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
19. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
20. The Preservationist by David Maine ... it is best to start at the beginning with The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next series - Something Rotten is number 4) and The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime Series)
That's all for now, I wanted to only include books that I had read at least three times, although that doesn't have to apply to ... ... with Dragons and the other Enchanted Forest Chronicles and Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime books which start with the Big Over Easy - investigating Humpty-Dumpty's demise! And on a slightly different, different note, there are Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime books, The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear, which have fairy tale characters literally involved in the plots--also snarky, sarcastic and witty. Others along this line but juveniles include The Sisters G ... ... book in this group?
Don't forget, once you've exhausted the thursday next series you have his nursery crimes books next the big over easy and the fourth bear :) ... all the major causes there. And I also got 'The Book Group' season 1 on video for 25p from Save the Children!
LIBRARY:
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Passing for Normal by Amy Wilensky
If Minds Had Toes by Lucy Eyre
Privacy: A Manifesto by Wolfgang Sofsky
Madness: A Bipolar Li ... ... ten percent discount on them by waiting until I went into town and stopped at Barny Noble's.
The books I bought are:
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde; I have its successor and thought I'd start at the beginning.
Spy, the funny years by Graydon Carter; I remember when they ... I have not read The Big Over Easy, but I have read The Glass Key. Did you do something, kirby? ;)
I haven't read The Big Sleep but I have read The Big Over Easy. Est-ce the Big Over Easy le titre auquel vous faites allusion ?
Je suis effectivement impatient de reprendre le série des Thursday Next (mais il y a tellement à lire, non ?) et je suis tout à fait d'accord pour dire que ça donne envie de se remettre dans les classiques. ... Neil Gaiman ***.5
25. 'Fool' by Christopher Moore **
26. 'Sweeping up Glass' by Carolyn Wall ************
27. 'The Big Over Easy' by Jaspar Fforde READING NOW
28. 'Eclipse' by Stephanie Meyer *1/2
29. 'Hearts of Horses' by Molly Glos ****
30. 'The Forgotten Garden' ... ... - might just end up keeping it separate though. I need to look into the different account as well.
I've now finished The Big Over Easy - it takes me a bit longer to get through books when I've got more than one on the go. I really enjoyed it, though not as much as the Thursday Next books ... The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
Haven't read this, but would like to.
Hola Sanddancer
Might I suggest Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes books to you. The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear. Both good books. My husband read them and then brought Three Bags Full. I'll have to ask him how they compare since I haven't read that one yet. ... read the rest of them because the back story gets quite complicated! I do love the series though.
I'm still reading The Big Over Easy - I'd put it on hold because I'm reading it with a tiny book club my friend started and some people had had problems getting hold of it, but I'm looking ... ... but just not up to that same quality he showed in the first couple of books. As for the Nursery Crimes, I think I preferred The Big Over Easy but I also read The Fourth Bear literally immediately after finishing The Big Over Easy and I read them both within three days. Thus, I may have been a ... ... for The Eyre Affair, which I read last year, so I would probably choose one of those. Perhaps Lost in a Good Book or The Big Over Easy. ... a feel good read. It's the first book I've read by Alice Hoffman and I think I'll be reading some more.
I've now started The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde - I'm a big fan of the Thursday Next series so have high hopes for this.
Hmmm... I really should keep a numbered list somewhere so I ... ... and Ptomely's Gate - it's so rare for a book to actually make me laugh out loud, and this did in such a refreshing way
The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear left me wanting more Nursery Crimes books.
And I still have the Orcs trilogy sitting here waiting to be read.
That's it for ... I'm reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde ! It's my first book by him. I plan to read The Big Over Easy next. ... Bookworm Droppings: An Anthology of Absurd Remarks Made by Customers in Secondhand Bookshops - Sean Tyas (post 140)
23) The Big Over Easy - by Jasper Fforde (post 143)
24) Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine (post 144)
25) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (post 146)
26) Breaking Dawn - ... This afternoon I finished The Big Over Easy, which I enjoyed immensely. Next up will be a pulp novel from the 30s: Call Her Savage by Tiffany Thayer. The Thayer book will be the 50th of my 50 Book Challenge. Can I finish it by tomorrow night? Book 49: The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Lots of fun! Very well crafted and great to read. I actually liked this book better than First Among Sequels, the final Thursday Next book. I am still reading The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde and enjoying it. It's book 49 on my 50 Book Challenge list. ... Library's Friends of the Library used bookstore. These stories were mostly good but not great.
Last night I started The Big Over Easy. Having caught up with all the Thursday Next books, I thought I'd give Fforde's other hero, Jack Spratt, a tumble. I'm surprised to say I'm enjoying this ... ...
Murder After Hours by Agatha Christie
Changeling by Delia Sherman
The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Reindeer People by Megan Lindholm
A little bit strange... (books standing out in originality)
1. Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy
2. Jasper Fforde - The Fourth Bear
3. Mark Z. Danielewski - Het Kaartenhuis (House of Leaves)
4. Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
5. Hal Duncan - Vellum
6. Hal Du ... I really like
Dirk Gently by Douglas Adams
A new favorite is
Jack Spratt by Jasper Fforde
And the old favorites
Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple and Nero Wolfe.
from Amazon:
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem, a group of stories by Muriel Spark
Love, love, love Muriel Spark, so I'm excited ... 68. The Big Over Easy #48-- The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
This was a fun book. Part mystery, part comic fantasy, this was just a wonderfully entertaining story. I will definitely be picking up more of this author's books!!! ... Pie Society September
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker October
First Read in a Series -- done
The Big Over Easy Jan
Ender's Game March
Size 12 is Not Fat April
Shadowland: Mediator April
Darkly Dreaming Dexter April
Buffy, the vampire slayer Omnibus, Vo ... ... series featuring Jack Spratt. I like the Thursday Next books better, but it's also very good. The first book is the Big Over Easy. I don't know if Fforde's second book being released next summer is in that series, or soemthing entirely different. There are two books in the Jack Spratt N ... We'll keep our fingers crossed! That book description makes me think of The Big Over Easy. Have you read it, foggi?
LadyN, I really hope your books arrive soon! TBR pile back down to 61 as I start Jasper fforde's The Fourth Bear, having finished The Big Over Easy
My review of The Big Over Easy:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. But was it accident, suicide, or murder? Detective Inspector Spratt and Detective Sergeant Mary investigate ... I haven't finished The Big Over Easy yet, but have been enjoying it enough to go out and get its sequel, The Fourth Bear. At the same time I also bought F. Donald Logan's A History of the Church in the Middle Ages. So that takes the TBR pile back up to 62. Not a good start.
In the ... ... story wasn't bad, Hyacinth obviously belonged to something much more interesting.
Also started Jasper fforde's The Big Over Easy as I had a Kinokuniya voucher from my birthday burning a hole in my pocket. Jack Spratt Investigates The Big Over Easy by Jasper FForde
This book is written as a straight Detective novel and I would forget that it's a tongue in cheek story. I really enjoyed this book and plan to read some more by this author. "A bit fanciful," remarked the Titan.
Jack Spratt investigates The Big Over Easy by Jasper FForde ... is a werewolf by Kathy Love, a new writer to me.
Ghost Stories a treasure press anthology.
Lost in a good book and The big over easy - Jasper Fforde fans, is it necessary to read the Thursday next books in order?
And delivered today from Amazon Nation and Brisingr.
... eigh
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Lottery, Patricia Wood
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
Run, Ann Patchett
The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti
Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
World Without End, Ken Follett ... ... is my favourite. I'd also like to second wookiebender's comment about The Fourth Bear - much more entertaining than The Big Over Easy. ... Dune series...
ETA: Oh, have you tried the Nursery Crime series by Jasper Fforde? Less literature-based, the first one The Big Over Easy is a bit slow as he has to set things up, but the second one - The Fourth Bear - is excellent. Oh definitely The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde from reading_fox's library.
I've read and enjoyed one of Fforde's Thursday next books and have been wanting to try this one--the premise is so clever.
My mailman brought me The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde from BookMooch.
The postage was paid with five giant 41 cent Star Wars stamps, a 17 cent goat stamp, and a 1 cent tiffany lamp stamp.
It was fairly entertaining. ... police investigation in an early industrial / preindustrial fantasy setting. Sequel to Point of Honor.
Jasper Fforde The Big Over Easy - Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) is a policedetective in a modern day England of fictional characters. ... Next book or his first Nursery Crime. But the rest of the Thurs. books are excellent as is The Fourth Bear. Although The Big Over Easy is worth the read for the conclusion of how Humpty Dumpty died. I laughed out loud.
I also agree with you on the "...Chocolate Bunnies". I just passed ... Big Trouble
The Big Over Easy
The Big Blowdown
The Book of the Long Sun
The Book of the Short Sun
Get Shorty
Le Petit Prince
Little, Big
Little Men
Little Women
... Dumpty’s murder. Even though the nursery rhyme plot device has been used before, most effectively in Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear, Gaiman pulls it off well.
The next story is “The Whistling Room” by William Hope Hodgson. Hodgson wrote in the early 190 ... ... Let Me Go this morning, so it's time for a new read. I'll probably continue Drums of Autumn this week and start on The Big Over Easy for the Go Review that Book! group. OK, shootingstarr - I have to go with The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. It's one of my faves so let me know if you like it too.
And for those wondering if I'm new around here, I'm not. I've just been MIA because I finally *FINALLY* got around to reading and reviewing Avoid Boring People ... You weren't asking me, but I reviewed The Eyre Affair along with Fforde's The Big Over Easy a few years back. I found both of them pleasant enough nonsense, but I certainly never wanted to read anything else by this author. The books seem to me to be all about the cute little gimmicks Fforde ... I started Dracula and also borrowed The Big Over Easy from the library (I still haven't tracked down The Eyre Affair.) I have about six or seven other books in a pile near my bed waiting to be read/finished.
Now I just need the time-turner and I'm set. ... mention 3 more from the store. Or was it 4 online? Hell- I'm losing control already.
Okay, here are the books:
65. The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde
Related to the Thursday Next books, the Nursery Crime series (of which this is the first) follow Detective Jack Spratt and Mary Ma ... ...
Verdigris Deep by Frances Hardinge
From Daedalus Books:
A Sudden Wild Magic by Diane Wynne Jones (for my husband)
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare: An Illustrated World View by Byron Farwell (for my husband)
Fiv ... I actually read The Fourth Bear before any other Fforde book and liked it well enough to track down The Big Over Easy and then start the Thursday Next books. You would probably be OK reading the one you have and if it appeals read the others in order. The Fourth bear is the 2nd in the Jack Spratt Nursery Crime series, the first is the big over easy. Both of these feature concepts first developed in the 5 Thursday next books that start with the eyre affair. However I think there is nothing particularly explict that requires reading any of the ... ... in a Good Book
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
First Among Sequels
Nursery Crimes Series
The Big Over Easy
The Fourth Bear
According to his website, the next book he has published will be the first in a new 3-part saga called Shades of Grey. It is ... 12. Blood and Thunder: Kit Carson and the Epic Conquest of the American West - Hampton Sides
13. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde ... not.
Speaking of humor - am taking a break from AT to indulge in Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes. Am halfway through The Big Over Easy, and it has plenty of chuckles and groaners (there is no pun to which he will not stoop). ... this board so far that I could have guessed correctly! I would have had a good run at #130 but might have guessed it as The Big Over Easy, as well as #144 but would have guessed one of the Dark Tower series. ... be released in July 2009. Fforde also has another series, about nursery rhymes. They're also very funny, and begins with The Big Over Easy. My kid sister doesn't read, but she is always asking about that one because she'd heard a little of what it's about and is interested in it. Punkpower-Good Lord, more?? Tithe is on my Bookmooch wishlist, I just mooched The Big Over Easy and it's on its way in the mail. I've read the first in the Dresden Files and own the first...five? Did I mention I hoard books for a rainy day? :) I haven't had much luck finding a copy of Tooth ... ... for ya:
The Witch's Boy
Tithe and it's follow-ups
the books of the Dresden Files, starting with Storm Front
The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear (Basically, anything Jasper Fforde
I've read a couple of the Thursday Next books, as well as one from his Nursery Crimes series, and while I really enjoy them they can seem a bit over-stuffed -- Pratchett knows not to include eveyone in every story, so while I may say "Hey, where was Nobby?", if he wasn't needed, he wasn't in -- ... The Big Over Easy? Not familiar with him, but he looks interesting. I checked him out b/c of msg #329. ... ooks
The Story of Forgetting: A Novel
A Hatred for Tulips
Non-Fiction
The Year of Living Biblically
Mystery
The Big Over Easy
Two for the Dough
Award Winners
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Children's
The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain
... ooks
The Story of Forgetting: A Novel
A Hatred for Tulips
Non-Fiction
The Year of Living Biblically
Mystery
The Big Over Easy
Two for the Dough
Award Winners
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Children's
The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain
... books yet, perhaps if it goes well I'll read him again for my another book by the same author category.
I finished The Big Over Easy and it was pretty good. I liked seeing characters I knew like Jack Spratt, Humpty Dumpty, and others in unfamiliar ways. ... with Christopher Moore! If you haven't read The Stupidest Angel or Fluke they are also excellent reads.
I've had The Big Over Easy for some time now. I bought it for the cover. Let me know what you think of it when you've read it. I haven't tried yet.
Keep on keepin' on.... ... books alone I walked out with:
What is What by Dave Eggers (which has been strongerly recommended by other LTers)
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
and The Hope by by Herman Wouk Just finished The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde this weekend. It seems he was really popular reading two weeks ago (judging by last week's posts). I enjoyed the first book in his Nursery Crimes series. I loved seeing familiar characters show up in new and unexpected places, like Mary Mary, Jack ... ... Cabret read in January 2008
Mysteries
Two for the Dough read in January 2008
Nate the Great read in January 2008
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime read in 2008
Non-Fiction
The Year of Living Biblically read in 2008
Been meaning to read this author again
Tim O'Brien ... ... the style of the illustrations but again I highly recommend The Invention of Hugo Cabret!!
This morning I started The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime. I am trying to read more mysteries as they are in high circulation at the library where I work. ... Elizabeth George
6. Kisscut by Karin Slaughter
7. The Eyre Affair by Jaspar Fforde
8. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
One of the above will be replaced by Interred with their bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell. Just not sure which one yet.
Re ... ... I lost track of time. Bizarre but intriguing it is, as well as very funny.
I was surprised at a bit of similiarity to The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde at least as far as one plot point goes. Hmmm..Well, I'm not sure I'll hit 50 by the end of the year but at least I have one more to add.
45) The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde - A surprisingly complex satirical novel revolving around Detective Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crimes Division, and his new side kick Mary Mary. Togethe ... ... nan
Snakes and Earrings-Hitomi Kanehara
We're Just Like You, Only Prettier-Celia Rivenbark
Wasted-Marya Hornbacher
The Big Over Easy-Jasper Fforde
Don't Know Much About History-Kenneth Davis
The Autumn of the Patriarch-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Idiots at Work: Chronicle of Workplace ... ... sister-in-law the first Tuesday Next book last year and she quickly read through them all, so I think I'm going to buy her The Big Over-Easy.
I think books make great gifts if done right. Personalizing the choices can be fun. I wrapped up Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear this morning. Thought it was an improvement on The Big Over Easy though the Nursery Crime series is still not as good as the Thursday Next books.
This afternoon I'm starting John dos Passos's The 42nd Parallel, which I am only about two pages ... The Fourth Bear made me laugh out loud - it is the sequel to The Big Over Easy but ten times more hilarious. It was the one thing that cheered me up after a death in the family. ... work:
http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/people/merritt/books/Eye_of_Argon.html
And I've started reading Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy, which is a very interesting satire of crime novels. Wish me luck! ... Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel, by Jasper Fforde
29. The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime, by Jasper Fforde
30. The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime, by Jasper Fforde
31. A Field Guide to Evangelicals and their Habitat, by Joel Kilpatrick
32. The Sweet Potato Queen’s Field Guide ... 29.) The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
LOVED IT!! Just as good as The Big Over Easy! I have been meaning to read this forever, first it was in hardback, then none of the stores had it in stock, then my special order got screwed up-! BUT: Well worth the wait! Now am waiting for the new Thur ... Too funny! Thanks for the heads up Maren. I didn't even realize that the title was a parody! The Big Over Easy was a really funny book and I'm hoping The Fourth Bear will be just as good! ... Laurie Viera Rigler
A visit to Highbury, Joan Austen-Leigh
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Loving Frank: A Novel, Nancy Horan
First among ... ... you. (Haven't added any Thursday Next books yet?) Have you read Jasper Fforde's Jack Spratt series? It begins with The Big Over Easy. It's hilarious, though I favor his T.N. series over it. :) ... reality, or PDRs).
Two books so far and both are hilarious as well as working incredibly well as who-dunits!
1. The Big Over Easy
2. The Fourth Bear ... Fast Camel by Louise Rennison (Georgia Nicolson book 5)
4. Beware a Scot's Revenge by Sabrina Jeffries
5. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Funny and intelligent mystery, though I think I missed references because I don't remember nursery rhymes well enough.
6. Bird ... 26. The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde. Great--much better than The Big Over Easy. Jack Spratt and his crew have to recapture the Gingerbread Man and figure out who killed Goldilocks. ... the last 100 pages or so. Takes place in 1718 and Clark is very good at making everything seem viscerally filthy.
18. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Not as good as the Thursday Next series, but I liked it anyway. I sort of feel like Fforde used up most of his best material in ... 66. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Funny. I enjoyed it. I even ordered The Eyre Affair from Amazon so that I can read more. Review to follow later (hopefully). Reading The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime byJasper Fforde and Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose which is just beautiful. ... isn't the last. Jasper Fforde has just released Thursday Next in First Among Sequels and I believe there are a few Nursery Crime spin-off books. :-) I started reading The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde. Really good stuff... I'm pretty much always re-reading stuff. Currently Century rain next up Big Over Easy then I plan the new The Fourth bear which will be the only non-reread. ... Inspector Huss y Helene Tursten
The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Big Over Easy: A NURSEry Crime by Jasper Fforde ... Chandler
Basic Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Japanese Cooking : a simple art by Shizuo Tsuji
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (I haven't read it yet--just bought it today, but I've heard great things about this author.) ... and William Martin's The Lost Constitution. I'm currently reading The Pickwick Papers and Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy. I haven't picked my next non-fiction but it might be Arthur Cash's John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty or John Mack Faragher's ... I've started my first Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy. I love Simon Prebble so I'm really looking forward to the book!
Edit for the touchstone and my poor grammar... I've placed a hold for The Big Over Easy on audio book and The Eyre Affair was at the library yesterday, so I'll go back and get it. They sound really fun!
I just finished my first Hiaasen and really enjoyed it (Skinny Dip). ... two series, the Thursday Next series which begins with The Eyre Affair and the Nursery Crime series wich begins with The Big Over Easy.
Neither are really fantasy, certainly not in a J RR Tolkein way. The basic presmise is alternative universe set more or less in Swindon (UK) and ... ... very funny - not two weeks worth of funny, but maybe one.
Starts with the Eyre Affair and has a second series with the big over easy which the latest the Fourth bear belongs to.
Good omens if you haven't read it is at least a day's read. ... by Janet Fitch
32. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
33. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
34. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
35. Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
36. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Soon to be 37. Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
... ... I read it, but it's down my list a ways. I'm reading thru the Harry Potter books (who isn't??) first. Then I need to read The Big Over Easy as I haven't read that one yet. But, it'll be next on my list after that. Thanks for giving my TBR pile direction! ... Paulo Coelho (have no idea how I slogged through it)
6. The Passion - (1/28) Jeanette Winterson (EXCELLENT book!)
7. The Big Over Easy - (2/4) Jasper Fforde
8. Dream Angus - (2/10) Alexander McCall Smith
9. Abundance: a novel of - (2/17) Sena Jeter Naslund
10. Kafka on the Shore ... ... world with the people from the Book World that delights me.
On the other hand, I enjoyed The Fourth Bear more than The Big Over Easy so we'll see how that series continues. ... If you read his Thursday Next series, begin with The Eyre Affair. For his Jack Spratt Nursery Crime series, begin with The Big Over Easy. This guy's my favorite author! I found another! The Big Over Easy in cooking.
Edited: What I'd like to see is The Dictionary of Imaginary Places in travel. ... - Used bookshops will be of no use if it hasn't been published yet.
The original TN books were only paperback, but the Nursery Crime ones have all come out in Hardback first - though they look like PB with drawn in bent corners and scuffs etc! TN has now been released in this format too. ... I couldn't believe it had taken me this long to come across this author. The second was read just last week by me and was The Big Over Easy with Jack Spratt and it really is a tough call to say which I loved more.
I find them both wonderful in that I can read them and unexpectedly bump ... ... pages
09. Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud (F) 501 pages
10. Beloved by Toni Morrison (F) 324 pages
11. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (F) 383 pages Yesterday I read The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde which is a wickedly funny whimsical book about Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Nursery Crime Division. It was a wonderful light read which was much needed as I finished Beloved by Toni Morrison the day before and that was a tad ... ... familiar with my tastes - and a very bad influence!
Friday lunch - went to the same bookstore and walked out with:
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
In High Places by Harry Turtledove
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan (one of ... 12. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde 383 pages
13. The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde 378 pages
LOVED these books!! Along the same veins of Gregory Maguire and Angela Carter, Fforde puts a delcious twist on old classics. I'll definitely have to get the Thursday Next series ... ... again though! :)
Anyways, as for me:
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde. LOVE IT! Although I find in both this and The Big Over Easy, I have to take more breaks between chapters than I did with say, the Dresden Files. I did wind up finishing it faster though.
One of my fave genres is ... "I didn't even think the Jack tales were a series."
As in Jack Spratt. Published so far in the series are The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear. Basically, the Nursery Crime series makes up the books that Jack Spratt is in, and will continue to be in. In children's fairy tales, there's ... ... using Prometheus and Pandora. I only liked Humpty dead. (Really, what choice do we have?) I thought the backcover of The Big Over Easy rather humourous. ... as they came out. Looking forward to First Among Sequels too but I think I'll reread Thursday's chronicles since I've read The Big Over Easy twice since I finished Something Rotten. What's your favorite Fforde book and/or who are your favorite characters? Thanks again for the group!
elba ... the UK versions were:
the eyre affair, lost in a good book, well of lost plots, something rotten and the big over easy with fourth bear published in hardback 6 months ago.
I don't believe these were different - although I'm sure the covers were. Fforde Absolutely hilarious one of the funniest author's you'll ever meet. Big Over Easy is probably a requirement before reading the fourth bear. They are, as the same suggests, send-ups of nusary rhymes. There are a lot of really obscure references, which only add to the humour. Most of ... ... a couple weeks ago, and was set to read that as my first book once I finish the Dresden Files, but now I went and bought The Big Over Easy so that I can read it first.
Have you (or anyone) read The Hollow-Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse? Looked interesting to me, but the reviews are ... ... Beat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Proven Guilty: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Big Over Easy: a Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde ... Beat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Proven Guilty: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Big Over Easy: a Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde To readafew: I would suggest reading The Big Over Easy first. ... Eyre Affair: 3
Lost in a Good Book: 2
The Well of Lost Plots: 2
Something Rotten: 2
Nursery Crime series:
The Big Over Easy: 2
The Fourth Bear: 1
Okay, not that many, I think, compared to some people, but I do enjoy and love these books. I have a woderful memory, and ... Most Popular - Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
100th - The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (691 owners)
10% (260th) - Light by M. John Harrison (224 owners)
Least Popular - ICFP '06 : proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Progr ... I'm currently reading The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde - may finish today - and Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer.
Yesterday I finished The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst. Finished The Blanchland Secret; Nightingale's Lament; Temptation Calls and The Big Over Easy now onto Deadlines and D**kheads by Anne Gildea which is an example of how to make a book un-touchstoneable, though the problem may be that the system hasn't refreshed yet. ... A. McKillip
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
The History of Danish Dreams - Peter Hoeg
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster ... F-H
The Geographer's Library
Human Traces
The Big Over Easy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In the Shadow of the Tamarind Tree by Matthew S Friedman
Anansi Boys
Veronica
Friendly Fire
A Window in Copacabana
Pontius Pilate by Miro Gavran
Blindsight
Sweet ... ... soul with a used bookstore spree:
North Side of the Ancient Plaza Santa Fe by The Old Santa Fe Association
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Wind in the Willows illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Dark Side of the Moon by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Day before that, my ... Amusing or amazing, I just happened upon the Kirkus Review of The Big Over Easy. Their concluding comment calls it "shallow but snarky". What a GREAT blurb that makes! And how much it reveals about Kirkus. They just "don't get it". fford deals only in the finest, crystaline, virgin snark. S ... ... Like a Professor. With my kids, listening to Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, and by myself still listening to The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. ... by Noel Streatfeild with my kids yesterday--her Ballet Shoes was a favorite when I was young--and am still listening to The Big Over Easy while alone in the car. ... Lost in a Good Book and Well of Lost Plots, as they are more of the same great writing!
The most recent two, The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear aren't about Thursday, but are related (if you read Well of Lost Plots it will become clear!
Jasper does a range of postcards ... ... Lost in a Good Book and Well of Lost Plots, as they are more of the same great writing!
The most recent two, The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear aren't about Thursday, but are related (if you read WEll of Lost Plots it will become clear!
Jasper does a range of postcards ... There'll be another Thursday Next book? I'm so glad! I'm listening to The Big Over Easy, and while it's fine, I really prefer the Thursday Next books. ... sure why I've avoided it (although I'm not a big fan of short fiction).
alicebook, I know the feeling--I'm listening to The Big Over Easy, and while it's fine, I miss Tuesday Next. I am reading Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott; listening to Coraline, by Neil Gaiman, with my kids; and The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde, when I'm alone in the car.
Snow Falling on Cedars could definitely be seen as slow by some--I think that's what makes it work.
Sivani, I'd be ... ... more rich on the second go-round while seeing its flaws, and finished listening to Funny in Farsi. I started listening to The Big Over Easy, which so far is not as enjoyable as The Eyre Affair, but I'll give it time. Tried to begin Louisa May Alcott, but wanted to throw it against the wall. ... ... the Night, but I'm still working on A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry.
I've just started Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy, as well as A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families, edited by John Preston.
And I'm reading the Venice bits in Henry James ... Currently it's anything by David Liss, and I would like to get Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear, and all the books posted on the Asian Fiction board, my non fiction wish list to too long to post! ... with lots of post-occupation intrigue. I didn't buy it because I was so exhausted I wanted something lighter (I bought "The Big Over Easy"). But I love Venetian intrigue, and reading Kanon's WWII take on it should be very entertaining. As far as Jasper Fforde goes I think the Nursery Crime books The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear work better as mysteries than the Thursday Next books.
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