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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cal8769's 2009 Mission to Conquer Mount TBR Extended Version		164	cal8769, Wednesday 10:48am
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50 Book Challenge : Red_Scharlach's II - 28/06/2009 - 27/06/2010		21	Red_Scharlach, December 9
Club Read 2009 : fannyprice's 2009 reading part II		169	tomcatMurr, December 7
What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?		188	thanuj2409, December 6
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Storeetllr's 2009 Reading Round-Up		98	Storeetllr, December 6
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Classics		285	aquascum, December 1
Awful Lit. : Awful Classics?		558	chapterofaccidents, November 27
Taggers! : Unusual tags you use		75	countrylife, November 23
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What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books redux (Life is short. Don't read crap.)		232	sanja, November 4
The Green Dragon : October 2009 stuff bought		68	katylit, November 1
50 Book Challenge : katacs' challenge for 2009		45	katacs, October 31
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : applebook1's reading list 2009		91	applebook1, October 22
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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Prop2gether, 2009, Act 2		226	Prop2gether, October 5
What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - September 2009		215	jdthloue, October 2
Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 29		364	kooiekerhondje, September 20
999 Challenge : bonniebook's 999 challenge, Turn to Chapter 2		115	RidgewayGirl, September 13
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50 Book Challenge : Mark's (MSF59)		303	msf59, September 3
What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - August 2009		165	Bridget770, September 1
999 Challenge : bell7's		195	bell7, August 28
50 Book Challenge : bell7's 81-ish challenge in 2009		209	bell7, August 26
999 Challenge : Katrina's 999 challenge		51	katrinasreads, August 24
The Green Dragon : Reading Alphabetically		413	calm, August 8
Books Compared : Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights		34	bubamara21, August 4
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - July 2009		228	rolandperkins, August 1
BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends		428	infiniteletters, July 29
The Green Dragon : July's Joyous Bargains		35	Shanra, July 29
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of June 27, 2009?		259	ashleywolf, July 28
Literary Snobs : What are you reading? 1st Quarter, 2009		302	bobmcconnaughey, July 27
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Ambrosia4's 75 Book Challenge		124	alcottacre, July 25
The Literati : What books came into your home today?		70	babyblues47, July 15
999 Challenge : Ambrosia4's		84	RidgewayGirl, July 1
FantasyFans : Where are you in Fantasyland?		310	evalynjewell, June 27
50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's 50 book challenge 2009		313	billiejean, June 25
Go Review That Book! : Game Thread 3		250	lilyfyrestorm, June 23
Book talk : Another Silly Game - Part 21		525	moibibliomaniac, June 16
Hogwarts Express : Share your pile of gifts!!		133	jade605, June 3
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in May? (Besides this thread...)		218	biblioholic29, June 1
The Green Dragon : New 'where are you' thread		238	cmbohn, May 30
Book talk : A Silly Boo Game/Part 6		300	SqueakyChu, May 29
Hogwarts Express : The Haiku Thread		389	Marensr, May 22
Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4		273	alans, May 19
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Angela's 2009 Reading List (amwmsw04)		203	amwmsw04, May 10
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Know of anything similar to Jasper Fforde?		11	CD1am, May 7
Book talk : Stupid game to play		437	careyi, May 4
Club Read 2009 : fannyprice's 2009 reading		238	fannyprice, May 2
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Prop2gether's 2009 List		253	Prop2gether, May 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cal8769's 2009 Mission: Conquer Mount TBR		226	suslyn, April 29
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : LisaCurcio's 2009 reads		114	blackdogbooks, April 26
999 Challenge : fannyprice's 2009		107	fannyprice, April 19
The Green Dragon : "Paroxysms of litjoy!"		35	jillmwo, April 19
The Green Dragon : Book Discussion: The Eyre Affair ~CAUTION ~ Contains SPOILERS		90	cal8769, April 14
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 21 February 2009		205	bookwormjules, April 12
Book talk : Who would you bring to life?		56	777Penny, April 10
50 Book Challenge : ChocolateMuse's Challenge		85	ChocolateMuse, April 2
The Green Dragon : March Reads 2009		243	Morphidae, March 31
The Green Dragon : March Madness (in the bookstore)		113	cmbohn, March 31
What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in February part II		229	Neverwithoutabook, March 10
Someone explain it to me... : Pride and Prejudice		66	Nickelini, March 5
What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in February		267	crazy4reading, February 28
Club Read 2009 : Top 10 Funniest Books		52	nohrt4me, February 25
FantasyFans : What's Your favorite fantasy book in 2008?		31	CurrerBell, February 18
50 Book Challenge : Going for 30.000 pages.		30	theaelizabet, February 11
What Are You Reading Now? : WHY are you reading now?		115	JimThomson, February 10
The Green Dragon : December reads		54	aprillee, February 6
Book talk : Hang Man puzzle XIII		301	Thrin, February 4
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--January 2009, #2		174	porchsitter55, February 1
999 Challenge : What are you reading right now?		255	naastik, February 1
The Green Dragon : Books that came into your home in January		89	Shanra, January 31
50 Book Challenge : citygirl's reading		116	citygirl, January 26
What Are You Reading Now? : The Gathering Place--first thread of 2009		232	richardderus, January 23
The Green Dragon : Tags on clothing...inspired by stickers on books thread		24	pollysmith, January 20
50 Book Challenge : KPlatypus: Going for 150 in 2008		100	Kplatypus, January 8
List Five Books Parlour Game : books with book or books in the title		34	varielle, January 7
Science Fiction Fans : What are you reading? (Q4) September-December, 2008		308	sgtbigg, January 6
50 Book Challenge : ljbwell tracking 2008		40	ljbwell, January 6
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 27 Decembeer 2008		175	thioviolight, January 4
50 Book Challenge : yoyogod's see how many books I can read in '08		133	yoyogod, December 2008
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : drneutron's Books Red in 2008		326	drneutron, December 2008
50 Book Challenge : Storeetllr's 2008 Book List		245	Storeetllr, December 2008
50 Book Challenge : bell7's 2nd half of 2008		81	bell7, December 2008
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I just finished listening to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde and narrated by Elizabeth Sastre. I really enjoyed this, so clever and amusing, any lover of the literary classics would love these books and appreciate them. Audio made it all that much better, (I read The Eyre Affaire) and ...

#96 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde I really enjoyed this 2nd in the series, so clever and amusing, any lover of the literary classics would love these books and appreciate them. I listened to it on audiobook and it made it all that much better, I will listen to all the rest of the Thursd ...

I did it! I completed my 2009 challenge and finished all 12 books! #12 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde I really enjoyed it, so clever and amusing, any lover of literary classics would love these books and appreciate how funny they are. I listened to it on audiobook and it made it all ...

I just finished Lost in a Good Book, really enjoyed it, so clever and amusing, any literary lover would love these books and appreciate it. I listened to it on audiobook and it made it all that much better, I will listen to all the rest of the Thursday Next books on audio.

I just finished Her Fearful Symmetry on audiobook, and am now beginning (on audio as well) Lost in a Good Book.

... Bianca Amato, despite that I found most of the female characters in the book unlikable. I'm now beginning to listen to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde narrated by Elizabeth Sastre.

... reading. The humor is great, the whole concept is funny, and having just read Jane Eyre I enjoyed it quite a bit. 117. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde I checked out volume 2 from the library so I could see what happened Next (inside joke). It was just as good, and now I just may have ...

... Born - Shannon Hale Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale A Pocket Guide to Dreams Airman - Eoin Colfer Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde I Had the Right to Remain Silent, But I Didn't Have the Ability - Ron White Personally, I'm ...

37. Lost in a good book by Jasper Fforde in English The second book in the Thursday Next series and just as interesting, original and entertaining as the first one.

Book #88 - Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde - Finished October 11, 2009 This is the second in the Thursday Next series. I enjoyed it, but didn't think it was as good as the first (The Eyre Affair). In this book, Thursday Next is up to her old tricks, jumping into books, hanging out ...

29. Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov The follow-up to Death and the Penguin and, in my opinion, just as good. The pace is rather quicker this time, as Viktor attempts to put things right (I don't want to say too much for fear of spoiling the first book for people). These efforts ...

House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba The Note by Kay Bognar Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

From Bookmooch: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde The 2nd book in the Thursday Next series. I just finished the 1st and enjoyed it. From a special LT friend: Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg This comes highly recommended from above person. Night Train by Martin Amis I ...

... based on the titles read this year: Describe yourself: The Left Handed Woman How do you feel: Lost in a Good Book Describe where you currently live: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances If you could go anywhere, where would you go: A Sen ...

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde -- part of the fun and quirky Thursday Next series.

I hate to burst your bubble there, Mark, but Thursday Next is a lot more than a trilogy: Lost in a Good Book The Well of Lost Plots Something Rotten First Among Sequels Something tells me I'm forgetting one....

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. Read in 2006 or 2007.

... 58. The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer I just love the Artemis Fowl books, they are so entertaining! 59. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde So glad I finally tried this series! Lots of fun.

#81 It is one of mine as well :) 66. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 67. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 68. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde quite light, fast-paced... it's hard to put it down...

... Perfume by Patrick Suskind Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Small Island by Andrea Levy Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Then some books I had requested were ready at the library to pick up so I took home: Hamlet: ...

... reading (in order of most pages read..) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett Bleak House - Charles Dickens Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde Next 5 in my TBR pile The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson Getting the Girl - Markus Zusak The Sword of Shan ...

... by Pascal Mercier The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin Lots of reading to ...

Well, I just put down Lost in a Good Book, I agree it wasn't bad, but it just didn't hold my interest. All the little jokes and clever names, etc. kept me from keeping me interested in the plotline. I wasn't in the mood for it. Someday I'll come back to it. Not much luck with Jasper Fford ...

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman ETA: ack, sorry, down to J... Lost in a good book by Jasper Fforde Wait... alphabetical by last name, right? :S

... it. I can't believe I only discovered him last October! I have to say I got a little overexcited at the mention of him in Lost in a Good Book! It's good to know that the Nursery Crimes books are good too - something to look forward to! Anyway, enjoy the audio tapes and good luck with the 999 ...

63. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. 3.5 stars. Audio. In this sequel to The Eyre Affair, Tuesday Next is preggers, but her husband and father of the baby has been temporally displaced by nefarious forces of Goliath and/or SpecOps. On top of that, unless Tuesday figures out what some pink ...

... :oD I snagged... In the Woods by Tana French The Passion by Jeanette Winterson Landlocked by Doris Lessing Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (YAY! I want to start this one immediately but am making myself wait until I've finished at least one of the five others I'm currently ...

Finished Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.....Great book, great series, so clever, so funny...looking forward to book 3! :) pj77 :)

Just finished Dissolution, which was a great historical mystery, and am still listening to Lost in a Good Book, but I'm not allowing myself to start anything new until I finish the reviews I owe and post them on my blog. Really! I mean it! No new books, not even the ones that are crying ...

... - 28/06/2009 (OK, technically cheating by a few days, but I didn't put it in last years and it's my list so there :p) Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde This series gets better and better. Total books read to date = 1/50

I'm now beginning Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.

I'm lost in a good audio version of Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. *heh sometimes I crack myself up*

Wow, I haven't posted on here in a while. I did reread the Attolia series, and then I read Rumors, and now I'm reading Lost in a Good Book, with The Well of Lost Plots to follow unless I change my mind. Seems like there was something else I read, but I can't think what.

Now I'm in Swindon with Thursday Next again. I'm on a bit of a rereading kick lately, it seems.

For the Old Authors Category: Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde Sorry for the long delay before posting, I was busy graduating from college! This is one of the few sequels that I can safely say is better than the original. The character of Mrs. Havisham and Thursday's crazy ...

... but it was a reread and I haven't had the time to write a review. I finally have had some time, but it'll be short! 20. Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde (2003, 399pgs, English) This is one of the few sequels that I can safely say is better than the original. The character of Mrs. H ...

My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.

... I Read This Now: I needed some good 'ole scifi :) What I'm Reading Next: I've already started rereading Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde, the 2nd Thursday Next book. I reread the first in January.

... entire week is going to be unreal. Already started in on (and by that I mean, am practically half done rereading) Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde, 2nd in the Thursday Next series (reread the first in January).

... Things by John Connolly 339 pgs. from LTer 29. Privileged Information by Stephen White 363 pgs. library 30. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 399pgs. library April- 31. Carter Finally Gets It by LT author Brent Crawford 300 pgs, library 32. The Dead Zone ...

... Rebel Angels - Libba Bray (19) The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray (20) The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West (21) Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (22) The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory (23) Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (24) City of Glass - Cassandra Clare (25) H ...

Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde. The 2nd Thursday Next novel, on my wishlist.

... By Anna L'Estrange 16. The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle 17. Breaking Dawn By Stephanie Meyer 18. Lost in a Good Book By Jasper Fforde 19. The Waves By Virginia Woolfe 20. The Collector By John Fowles 21. Mary Barton By Elizabeth Gaskell 22. Secrets About Life ...

I just finished Lost in a Good Book. It is as good as the first!

I just finished Lost in a good book and I love Fforde. He is very clever and entertaining.

And numbers 120 through 122: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Lost in a Good Book (audio) by Jasper Fforde From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne Another 1001 Must Read in Hemingway, but the first novel I've read of his in many years. At some point, I got tired of all the ...

... target="_blank">Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde My light reading for my outward flight. Just as enjoyable as The Eyre Affair, but quite moving too. I'm in awe of his imagination. ...

"Nonsense, girl." Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde "A movie? Are you nuts?"

"Best not to know." Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde "What are we doing? Torching the lifeless walking husks of the undead?"

... probably enjoy it far more than I did. Now I’m off to finish a batch of library books including The Sun Also Rises, Lost in a Good Book (on CD and a delight!), From the Earth to the Moon, and Cryptonomicon.

... life would be without them. How are things going for you? I'm still reading The Stand, The Book of Lost Things and Lost in a Good Book. I haven't been reading much. I hope I'm not getting in a slump.

... rohaugh The Babysitters Club: The Truth About Stacey, by Ann M. Martin The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde

... Connolly 339 pgs. from LTer 29. Privileged Information by Stephen White 363 pgs. library 30. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 399pgs. library

... February saw 11 new acquisitions), but I caved in and ordered (as opposed to buy from the bricks'n'mortar SF bookshop) Lost in a good book and Hunting party, first of the Serrano books. Maybe I'm mad but I have no idea if I'll like the series or not so I wanted to buy just one, instead of ...

... obsessed with everything fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and the reinterpretation therof. 3) The Eyre Affair and 4) Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde (I can't wait to get the rest of this series! I'm hooked!) 5) The Fantasy Hall of Fame, edited by Robert Silverberg (TBR) ...

#91 - Tried to get Lost in a good book ever since I finished Eyre Affair. Seems real hard to get, here :-(

#79 - Only read The House of Mirth if you can handle being thoroughly depressed. I just finished Lost in a Good Book. I'm thinking of building a shrine to Jasper Fforde somewhere in my home. I have a few to read before I move onto the next 'Next' novel, though. Like American Rust to ...

I visited my favourite used bookstore yesterday, to look for Lost in a Good Book and what did I see but an entire shelf of absolutely pristine Folio Society editions. Two people had brought them in sorting through their parent's estates. *enormous sigh*. The bookseller didn't/doesn't think many ...

BUT, reading Great Expectations makes Jasper Ffords's use of Miss Havisham's character in Lost in a Good Book absolutely priceless. But read the first in the series first, The Eyre Affair.

I just hit this expression in Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. He uses it to describe how fans of Shakespeare would react if a previously undiscovered play of the Bard's were to be authenticated. So, are there any undiscovered works that would send you into paroxysms of litjoy? I ...

... of discussion, so will be back to it later. #18 Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde. I had liked The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book. Somehow skipped Well of Lost Plots. This will be the last of Fforde for me. The devices that were so entertaining in the first two are now just ...

I finished Uhura's Song and started Lost in a Good Book.

Books I'm Not Expecting #3 Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde I didn't think I would get back into this series, despite having really enjoyed The Eyre Affair - I tried a couple of ...

(21) Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde I didn't think I would get back into this series, despite having really enjoyed The Eyre Affair - I tried a couple of times to read this book and just ...

... Terry Pratchett (his collaboration with Neil Gaiman on Good Omens is one of the funniest books of all time) and Jasper Fforde.

Finished The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Starting The Ersatz Elevator. The TBR Pile: The Vile Village Lost In A Good Book If Chins Could Kill Vanilla Bright Like Eminem I love the library.

From the library, which I have been using a lot lately: Nixonland If Chins Could Kill Lost In A Good Book And from the children's library, because kid's books rock: Little House On The Prairie The Ersatz Elevator The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe The Vile Village Books ...

... ow? At least I only bought two and got one via bookmooch (which doesn't actually count): Inconceivable by Ben Elton Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields I'm staying in tomorrow...

The Eyre affair, that's the first in the Thursday Next series, followed by Lost in a good book, The well of lost plots, Something rotten and First among sequels.

26. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde This is book #2 in the Thursday Next series. Now I can say from personal experience that these books DO get better as they go. I enjoyed book #1, The Eyre Affair, but it was a little hard-going. I got confused easily and had to go back and re-read ...

January in review -- 1. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 2. The Shack by W.P. Young 3. The Tempest by William Shakespeare 4. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch 5. Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery 6. Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony 7. 1001 Books You Must Read Before Y ...

Lost in a Good Book? ETA: after all, it is Thursday.

... Bard, Standard Edition by J. K. Rowling The Woods by Harlan Coben A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde At least I think the Fforde came yesterday, too. I am a little behind in things this week. I hope my husband is out of the ...

... Bard, Standard Edition by J. K. Rowling The Woods by Harlan Coben A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde At least I think the Fforde came yesterday, too. I am a little behind in things this week.

I hoped for it to arrive today, but no luck. All that came in is Lost in a Good Book MrsLee in The Green Dragon : Tags on clothing...inspired by stickers on books thread (Jan 16, 2009, 4:22pm)

MINOR SPOILER _ _ _ _ Again, with all this tag-talk, I'm reminded of the Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book, where Thursday and Miss Havisham had to jump into her tag, then into her washing machine instructions in order to escape a dungeon. Maybe we should think twice about ripping out ...

28. Lost in a good book - Jasper Fforde 416 p.

Just left Kafka's the Trial/ der Prozess with Thursday N. in Lost in a good book.

Lost in a Good Book at the Lunatic Cafe in Salem's Lot makes me a Stranger in a Strange Land on This Side of Paradise.

1. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Category 7, Recommended Reads (could move to Category 1, Award Winners or Category 3, Books about Books/Reading/Writing) The second in the Thursday Next series (the first is The Eyre Affair) starts soon after the first ends. Thursday is being inundated ...

... his novels this year except 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.

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. Got a few fo the Thursday Next novels for Christmas. A quick, light read. Not snobbish material, but a lot of ridiculous, entertained groans from the reader.

I finished Final Harvest (my last book of 2008) and Lost in a Good Book (1st book of 2009). I'm now reading The Shack and enjoying it pretty well so far. Still going through 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, though it's slow going because like the OCD reader I am I have to make note ...

I started off with Lost in a Good Book, though I really only read about 30 pages on New Year's. I'm now reading The Shack by William Young, which will fit in either my "Recommendations" or "New to me authors" category depending on which is filling up more quickly.

My first book of the year was Lost in a Good Book. In all fairness, though, I only had 30 pages left when I went to bed on New Year's Eve.

1. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 999 Challenge, Category 7, Book 1 The second in the Thursday Next series (the first is The Eyre Affair) starts soon after the first ends. Thursday is being inundated with requests for appearances on TV shows (she's even asked to create a workout ...

... you like 84 Charing Cross Road, it's a quick little read but very good. I'm off and running for 2009, having finished Lost in a Good Book (Category 7, Recommendations) this morning.

... I will revisit this selection in the future. 5 stars. Currently reading -- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and Lost in a Good Book Currently listening to -- Anne of the Island

... d 27. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov 28. The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan 29. Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov 30. Sex Wars by Marge Piercy 31. Une Poignée de gens by Anne Wiazemsky 32. The Blessing by Nancy Mitford 33. Don't Te ...

... a sucker for lists of books. If nothing else, I wanted to see how many I'd read (not many so far). Also, I'm reading Lost in a Good Book and still slowly but surely making my way through Final Harvest. (If you can't tell by how long I've been mentioning it, I find it very hard to read ...

... From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly 4. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 5. Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett 6. The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons 7. Through ...

... to the British - Sarah Lyall (NF) - 01/12/2009 2) Black Hole - Charles Burns (graphic novel) - 01/31/2009 3) Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (F) - 03/01/2009 4) The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory (F) - 03/05/2009 5) 6) 7) 8) 9)

... Kiss By: Richelle Mead Harley Davidson By:Patrick Hook I can has cheezburger The Eyre Affair By: Jasper Fforde Lost in a good book By: Jasper Fforde and A Whisper of Blood By: Ellen Datlow

Only two books here: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (now I have all of them! time for a reread!) Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov which I dove into immediately.

... I've finished a lot of books this month, the 4th Harry Potter, a Christmas themed mystery book with short stories in it, Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde and The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill.

... Marx by Sally Koslow finished 2009 Apr 24 19. Neuromancer by William Gibson finished 2009 May 2 20. Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde finished 2009 May 8 21. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon finished 2009 May 26 22.

... thors 1. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb finished 2009 Mar 26 (previously read She's Come Undone) 2. Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde finished 2009 May 8 3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath finished 2009 Jun 9 4. Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes L ...

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde read it sometime in 2007

The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...

... coincidence? (don't know if that's the right word) recently was discovering Jasper Fforde (I'm on the second title of the Thursday Next series) and reading him, a male author, writing in the first person from the point of view of a female character. And a female character that rocks, by the ...

... of how cruel child abuse is - and how as a parent, I can't "give up" on my children, no matter how difficult they may be. Lost in a Good Book - I love the Thursday Next novels and this was fun. Just when you think everything is going her way, something terrible happens to Thursday - fun for ...

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. Read in '05.

... by Christine de Pizan The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi, by Jacqueline Park More Book Lust, by Nancy Pearl Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

I have finally read (re-read) Lost in a Good Book. Very enjoyable! My review is here. grizzly.anderson will you read The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. I've done a little reading about Antarctica and would like ...

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

... by Van Reid 4-Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs 5-The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 6-Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 7-Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde 8-At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon 9-

... I think I'll begin the new year by targeting two "books I didn't finish" right out of the chute - probably Life Of Pi and Lost In A Good Book. And I do plan to begin again on page one! Once I've conquered them, I'll reward myself with something especially enticing from my TBR piles.

... E> 7. Wild Woods, Charles de Lint 8. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke 9. Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde 5. Non-fiction COMPLETE 1. Ethel and Ernest Raymond Briggs 2. Pyongyang, Delise

... Houellebecq Russia - Dynamo by Tariq Goddard, The Russian Debutante's Handbook Ukraine - Death and the Pengiun & Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov and A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka Spain - Homage to a Firing Squad by Tariq Goddard Hungary - Under a Fro ...

Spent the weekend in Bookworld with Lost in a good Book, and am noe Heaven-knows-where with Voices by Ursula le Guin (wonky touchstone), both courtesy Hillcrest Public Library.

Random Recommendations: From anyone - relationship indicated in parentheses 1. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (mother) 2. The Shack by William P. Young (friend) 3. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (mother) 4. Furies of ...

... like those. Here's one I made earlier. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill Last Tango in A ...

... It was a very quick read once I got going on it. tjsjohanna, you have quite a varied library! I finally decided on Lost in a Good Book, a book I am hoping to read soon myself. Hope you enjoy it! Anyone picking for me - I only ask that you choose something I haven't read in the past ...

#92 - Glad to hear you liked Lost in a Good Book better than the first. I was so-so on the first, but this is coming up soon on my TBR list and I have high hopes I'll like it better too.

76) Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde In some ways I liked this second in the Thursday Next series less than its predecessor; in some ways I liked it more...but, either way, I liked it. On the negative side, the book ended up lacking some of the depth of The Eyre Affair. Fforde ...

Thanks, everyone. I'm in the middle of Lost in a Good Book, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Defining the World...and need to get started on The House of the Scorpion which my son is reading for a book report. So, I think the "onward" is pretty much assured. :-)

... Affair?!? So that wasn't the problem the first time I tried to listen to it. I'm now looking forward to listening to Lost in a Good Book, which I have on my iPod. That is, after I finish my current audiobook ~ The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman, which started out pretty strangely and slow ...

... The reader was appealing, the story charming, the writing witty and funny. Now I'm looking forward to listening to Lost in a Good Book, which is also downloaded on my iPod. I'm just hoping my mood stays receptive.

... all be nicely touchstoned - if they work! The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill Last Tango in A ...

... a nasty cold most of this week, and in no condition to work on The Fabric of the Cosmos. So instead I re-read Lost in a Good Book and The Well of Lost Plots.

... books yesterday My sister 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 ...

... coming up on my list are: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

... high speed, it would have been quite a mess! I appreciate the good thoughts! :>) I'm happy today because I just started Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book. I loved The Eyre Affair and intend to make my way through all of her books! I'm unhappy because my eyestrain is a little worse ...

... yet!! Available now - The Inheritance of Loss Cradle to Cradle Lost in a Good Book Paradise of the Blind (has some water damage, but is readable) The Corrections

None of the series are set in Austen's books particularly but Lost in a good book and the well of lost plots are probably closest, and do involve some of her characters - Miss Haversham especially. It will make slightly more sense if you start with the first The eyre affair.

54. The Eyre Affair 55. Lost in a Good book 56. The Well of lost plots

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

I really loved the eyre affair and lost in a good book but when I tried to read the series with Det. Jack Spratt, I just couldn't get going with it. I could see how clever he thought he was being, but they just didn't grab me in the same way. I think perhaps it's because I love Thursday Next so ...

The NY Times book review across the cover of Lost in a Good Book: Harry Potter just for adults...effortlessly readable and unashamedly escapist. Still trying to wrap my brain around the Harry Potter reference...

Just finished Lost in a Good Book. Hilarious! Now to finish Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Next up on my list: Throne of Jade and the others in the Temeraire series The Well of Lost Plots Nefer the Silent But don't hold me to the order.

At the moment I'm reading Lost in a Good Book (really really funny!), and The Moving Finger which has baffled me, as Agatha Christie's books usually do. ;)

... delay was due to too many excuses being created by the Gravitube's Excuse Manufacturing Facility. ~Lost in a Good Book What a great idea! I want an excuse manufacturing facility. Make excuses for whatever you like. If you are lost for a good excuse, let us know and we' ...

... 6. Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander 7. Bonjour, Miss Seeton 8. Miss Seeton Rocks the Cradle rereads 1. Lost in a Good Book 2. Well of Lost Plots 3. Something Rotten 4. Royal Babylon 5. Daughters of Britannia 6. Courtesans

... interesting and has a neat dedication I need to put on another thread. I may need to take a break from it to read Lost in a Good Book before it has to be returned to the library.

... Anne Rice * Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov * The white guard by Mikhail Bulgakov * Penguin lost by Andrey Kurkov * The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas * Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock * A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey K ...

Good one! Yes: Charms for the Easy Life A Fine and Private Place Lost in a Good Book On the Way Home Peace A Room with a View No: Darkness at Noon The Demolished Man Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant The Man in the Queue Out of the Deep I cry Slouching To ...

... tv series linked cover! Give me the classic edition any day :-) A cover will attract me to the book - a title will too Lost in a Good Book was a classic one, I just had to investigate further. Though I am a bit peeved that I brought the first three of the series with one cover style (which ...

... Finn, Mark Twain 5. Picture Perfect, Jodi Picoult 6. Chronicles, Bob Dylan 7. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde 8. Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde 9. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett 10. This Charming Man, Marian Keyes 11. Something To Tell You, Hanif Kureishi 12. Love in the ...

Well, I'll list the other 3, just so I know I got it. Well of Lost Plots? Lost in a Good Book? Something Rotten? It has to be one of the ones I mentioned. I'm just disappointed in myself that I can't narrow it down further! I will return with a quote very soon...

... The Thirteenth Tale a lot of the tale takes place in a second hand book store or in a large personal library Lost in a Good Book the action takes place in the ultimate library, if not the soul of books and I am sure that one or two of Charles DeLint's books take place in a ...

Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series: The Eyre Affair, Lost In a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, etc... 6. tardis, I second Rupert Giles from Buffy. What about Doctor Who?

Does Lost in a good book count? Thursday Next doesn't have to search too hard but does spend a lot of time in the Jurisfiction library of all texts ever published, it's quite a bit bigger than a normal library. Sherlock holmes has his own unique catalog of his criminal cases that he searches ...

33. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (372 p., English) The 2nd in the Thursday Next series (see #24). I actually liked this one better - perhaps it was an improved attention span, but I found it more interesting and got into the rhythm of the book better, too.

... rthy The Namesake Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri And honourable mention, just for the fun factor goes to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

... Traig and Victoria Traig - loaner 68. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson - library 69. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde - keeper 70. Claudia and Mean Janine by Ann M. Martin - seller 71. Magic Under Glass by Jackie Dolamore - electronic ...

I just finished Howl's Moving Castle and I'm trying to decide between Dracula or Lost in a Good Book. Can someone tell me if that's the first Thursday Next book and if there is any reason I need to read them in order?

Well, I guess the obvious answer is The Eyre Affair and Lost in a good book (come on-the Cheshire cat as a librarian-what could be better?). But since most of the fiction I read is dystopian, I think I'd want to stay clear of those. I'll stick with The Eyre Affair-there's something ...

... (Time-Life Books) The Egyptian Book of the Dead: the Book of Going Forth by Day The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Finished the Adrian Plass and also Lost in a Good Book. So onto number 5 The Lambs of London

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde from PBS.

... - Well, I started this book way back in March and I must confess - I wasn't wild about it. It may be because I read Lost in a Good Book first so I knew what was going to happen with Hades and how Jane Eyre was going to be changed - and I'm hoping that this was the case, because I so< ...

69. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde - keeper I swear this book had illustrations when I first flipped through it. So did The Well of Lost Plots. Now it looks like Something Rotten is the first illustrated Thursday Next novel. Hmm. I found this peculiar ...

... collection. It's definitely one of the best short stories I've read since I got back into short fiction. I started Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde this morning. I'm not very far in yet, but so far it's great!

... also. I know nothing of the story, except that every person here loves it. Still reading Middlemarch and hope to finish Lost in a Good Book in the next day or so.

... is a list of both series and the related titles if you are interested: Thursday Next Series The Eyre Affair Lost in a Good Book The Well of Lost Plots Something Rotten First Among Sequels Nursery Crimes Series The Big Over Easy The Fourth Bear Acco ...

... Group Read, it seems like we are everywhere. I always wanted to read it and this was the perfect way. I am also reading Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, which I chose as something a little lighter and more fun, to balance out George Eliot.

... girl meets and is then trained by a retired Sherlock Holmes. I'm also still plugging away at Middlemarch, and will start Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, tomorrow, which should be a light enough book to balance George Eliot.

... husband" issue the same way I imagine I would - badly. Jasper Fforde is a genius. I really have nothing to add about Lost in A Good Book and The Well of Lost Plots except that I started the first on Tuesday, and this afternoon I went to the library to get the next two in the series ...

... Austen - and certainly the insight of character and the insertions of dry wit have echoes of Austen. sabreuse, is it Lost in a good book? (I have a feeling I at least have the right author here...)

I had wondered if anyone would feel challenged by that - hehehe. Lost in a Good Book is The Book Theif as they have The Book of Lost Books Books to Check Out keep disappearing like Blood and Chocolate as books die obsorbed Collected poems and Selected Short Stories ...

Let's see.... Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book are paperbacks, Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten are hardcover. I guess with that pattern I have to go paperback for First Among Sequels and whatever the next one is. ;)

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (aren't we all!!)

... The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, which was huge fun. Now I'm on to the next in Fforde's Thursday Next series, Lost in a Good Book. Claire So Many Pages www.somanypages.blogspot.com

34. Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child 35. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

At this time I would like to point out there is a book called Lost in a Good Book. ;) It's the second in a series, though, so don't skip the first one.

... Fforde books. Lost in a Good Book was really good and I started the Eyre Affair last night. We'll see! Finished #12: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. I don't have time to write anything up really, but I laughed out loud countless times and enjoyed recognizing some of the ...

... for the advice- I'm planning to start on that one next. I wasn't expecting hilarious, so that's encouraging. 43. Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde While I still think that Mr. Fforde could improve his timing, Lost in a Good Book was still a fun read. Thursday Next, our ...

I really enjoyed both The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, hope you do too. They are funny and just good reads. I'll have to see if I can find Thornyhold, sounds good!

... earlier this week, I checked out Thornyhold, Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. Instead of Lost in a Good Book, I wanted to get The Eyre Affair (the first book in the Thursday Next series, I have discovered) ...

Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde arrived today, and Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland came in for me at the library. These should be the last additions for the next little while.

Yay for Jasper Fforde books at $.50 each - I picked up two the Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book as well as the Last Prince of Ireland and Search of the Moon King's Daughter - gotta love ongoing library book sales

... to love love love it---but I just didn't. I thought maybe it was because I didn't start with The Eyre Affair, but with Lost in a Good Book. I finished that, but have not been tempted to pick up another.

... field 9. Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult 10. Atonement by Ian McEwan 11. Thornyhold by Mary Stewart 12. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 13. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 14. Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood 15. The Uncommon Reader ...

15. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Lost in a Good Book is a wonderful follow-on to The Eyre Affair. The wordplay and characterizations are just as good, and I especially loved all the fun Fforde had with names. The plot was a bit weaker than the previous book, but still well worth ...

... The Somnambulist yesterday evening. I've got a review up if anyone's interested, but in short, I liked it. Started Lost in a Good Book, am about halfway through. I have to finish this one before the wife gets back from the quilt festival tomorrow evening since she's reading it and I'm ...

I finished Lost in a Good Book and now I'm reading Foreigner for the GD group read. It's good so far.

In today's mail came Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde and Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata This is probably a silly question....But I've read a lot of talk on here about Virago books. What is so special about them?

... : a year of passionate reading by Sara Nelson Thursday Next in The well of lost plots : a novel by Jasper Fforde Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel by Jasper Fforde The Eyre affair : a novel by Jasper Fforde

... they allow for borrowings. It reminds me of the book reader in one of the Jasper Fforde books (I think it was Lost in a good book). I'm almost certain that it will remain a cost-prohibitive item for most people for a long time, though. 4. There will always be people who want ...

2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899). So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...

Margad, before you tackle The Well of Lost Plots, you need to read The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book first. However, if you just want to indulge in that one chapter, then no harm is done I guess :).

... - Book 2 of the Anita Blake Series 7. The Taste of Night by Vicki Pettersson - Book 2 of the Sign of the Zodiac 8. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde - Book 2 of the Thursday Next Series

... to the characters. You might also like the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. 1. The Eyre Affair 2. Lost in a Good Book 3. The Well of Lost Plots 4. Something Rotten 5. First Among Sequels Excellent fantasy/alternative reality books--very literate and very ...

appropriate for LTers: Lost in a Good Book, and the epitome of subtlety: A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius

1) Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 2) Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi

... David Czuchlewski* 4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak* 5. How Reading Changed my Life by Anna Quindlen 6. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 7. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 8. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler To Be Read: 1. Mercy by J ...

110. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde The second in the Thursday Next series and still a great read. Funny and witty and very, very clever. I have packed the next two in my suitcase to read while on holidays, so hope they live up to thier predecessors!

>55 I'm Lost in a Good Book, also in Swindon and >54 I'll be in The Memory Room very soon!

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

... emotional creatures. And if that doesn't sell you, try reading the Thursday Next series; the family plays a big role in Lost in a Good Book (I think that one), and having read them makes it so much funnier.

... a novel by Thomas Flanagan The undercover economist by Tim Harford The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings Thursday Next in Lost in a Good Book : a novel by Jasper Fforde What a Carve up! by Jonathan Coe A Whack on the Side of the Head : How You Can Be More Creative ...

... in on Wuthering Heights. If I'd read it cold I would have hated it. But after reading The Well of Lost Plots (or was it Lost in a Good Book?) and watching all the characters go through anger management sessions moderated by Miss Havisham, well, Wuthering Heights was hilarious. I enjoyed in a ...

... in on Wuthering Heights. If I'd read it cold I would have hated it. But after reading The Well of Lost Plots (or was it Lost in a Good Book?) and watching all the characters go through anger management sessions moderated by Miss Havisham, well, Wuthering Heights was hilarious. I enjoyed in ...

Reading Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes by Mark Penn for my non-fiction fix and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde for some fun.

Listening to Jane Eyre, which I wanted to read before Lost in a Good Book. I figured it would be less painful this way. I know the very basic outline and it's not a book I would read otherwise. And actually, listening to it is nice.

My favorite librarian character is the Cat Formerly Known as Cheshire in Lost in a Good Book and The Well of Lost Plots. One that's been on my list for a while and I eventually need to read is Casanova was a Librarian.

Hmm. Late start to October. Lost in a Good Book - J. Fforde, Thursday Next. As enjoyable as the first.

... and Sensibility by Jane Austen (author touchstone on vacation) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (no author touchstone again) The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier (once again, no author touchstone) The Gold ...

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, more Thursday Next. Laugh out loud funny. When I'm done with that one I'll move on to Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, of which I've heard very good things.

... recommendation of an LTer in the Science Fiction group); Judas Child, a non-Mallory mystery by Carol O'Connell; and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (another reccie by LTers).

"I smiled to try to put her at ease." Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Finished Tales of the City and now am onto Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde.

... "say that Shakespeare did not even exist, much less that he wrote the plays" Compulsary book reference Jasper Fforde Lost in good book I think, though it might be one of the others. #5"The where did we come from/who made us thing is baffling to me. I honestly don't care and am ...

Technically, this was yesterday, but Lost in a Good Book was on my doorstep when we returned from breakfast. Yee!

... i Lost in Austen, Emma Campbell Webster Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde Youth Books I'm Thinking About Reading: The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket So B. It, Sarah Weeks ...

... Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson Three Junes by Julia Glass Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (he's been mentioned on here a lot, so thought I'd give him a try) The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble The Ethical Can ...

It gets a mention in one of the thursday Next books by fforde I think its Lost in a good book but its been a while and I can't remember now.

... (and onwards from there). Satirical, deeply funny and incredibly clever - well worth reading. 1. The Eyre Affair 2. Lost in a Good Book 3. The Well of Lost Plots 4. Something Rotten 5. First Among Sequels

Thursday Next doesn't exactly count as a fantasy series (or a mystery or science fiction or...) but I'd love her Travel Book for jumping into literature!

YES! I've been planning to start my reread when I finished Lost in a Good Book, and I finished that all of, gee, ten minute ago. I've had the same apprehensive feelings about going through all of those emotions again, so I'll be glad of having a group to reread with (even if the group is just ...

... of Green Gables by L M Montgomery (very good) 2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (excellent) 3. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (pretty good, butnot as good as the first one) I didn't get onto any of the audio books though, as I was never anywhere alone.

... week I've finished: Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Am now reading The memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.

Managed to read 3 books while I was away: Anne of Green Gables Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lost in a Good Book All were excellent reads (with Snow Flower and the Secret Fan being the best of the bunch in my opinion). Am now moving onto The Memory Keeper's Daughter...

... recommendations here for The Eyre Affair. I finished it last week and just today picked up the next in the series Lost in a Good Book from the library. By the by Jasper Fforde has a really fun website. Give it a visit if you have not already. It was worth it for me just for the ...

He had a meeting about how Thursday Next is on the NYT bestsellers, and what that means for the next book. Reportedly. I thought he was a delivery guy.

... took him to the office in question. He was very nice. He gave me something out of the package. It was a press packet for Thursday Next with a movie, bumper sticker, button, and alternate first chapter. As he was walking away, I realized who the guy was.

... took him to the office in question. He was very nice. He gave me something out of the package. It was a press packet for Thursday Next with a movie, bumper sticker, button, and alternate first chapter. As he was walking away, I realized who the guy was.

... cle) The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (reading circle) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (because I'm going to Swindon and that's where it's set!) I'm also loading up my iPod with: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ...

... rcle) The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (reading circle) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (because it's set in Swindon and seems appropriate - LOL!) I'll also have my iPod loaded up with: Mansfield Park by Jane Aus ...

... (Posh Club) 3. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 5. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (because it's set in Swindon!) And I'll be loading up my iPod with: 1. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (already part-way ...

I'm going to Swindon for a week next Wednesday, so I'm taking Lost in a Good Book with me - it seems appropriate - LOL! I only wish we were flying on Thursday so I could say, "I'm going to Swindon Thursday Next"...

... circle choice) The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde I'll also be loading up my iPod with classic audio books: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Gulliver's Travels by Jonatha ...

I just started Tee in Kashmir, one of those rather bland novels spiced up with recipes. It's nothing special, but a nice read for inbetween.

... Rowling 28. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 29. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 30. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 31. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 32. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde 33. Harry Potter and ...

... Fforde, The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud, and A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman. I have just finished Lost in a Good Book and want to continue reading the series.

I am just finishing The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst. Next up are Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde and Ross King's The Judgment of Paris The Revolutionary Decade that gave the World Impressionism. I have read fiction( Ex-Libris and Domino ) by King and like his ...

Well, having read the two Nursery Crimes books and the first Thursday Next book, I've just ordered Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten from Amazon, as I had £15 of vouchers to spend (so I'm getting them and only having to pay £1.68, which is a MAJOR bargain by ...

... year) and all those footnotes were just impossible, I had to go back and read some of them in the morning. Ditto all the Thursday Next books. Now I can't read without my specs at all, I had to buy bendy ones for reading in bed.

9. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. I'm on a bit of a Thursday Next kick. I'm picking up the next one from the library today...

... by Haven Kimmel. Enjoyable to read a happy childhood memoir, especially a laugh-out-loud funny one. Currently reading Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next series). I think I might be hooked on these for a while.

I love the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next novels and I am so happy a new one comes out this summer (yeah, July!) I have to say that for smart mysteries, The Mary Russell books by Laurie R. King are excellent, and they revive Sherlocke Holmes as an interesting character Jeanette

... make the same mistakes over a long period of time (post-apocalyptic), but it also shows humanity's will to survive. 15. Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels) by Jasper Fforde Clever, funny, mysterious. It combines nearly all the things I love--classic fiction, science fiction, ...

My weirdest is probably "permeable boundaries between books and reality" and is so far only used on Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books and Cornelia Funke's Inkheart books.

... authors since before fantasy was a genre), it just kind of gets bloated and hung up on itself. Anyways, it's on to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde for me. We'll see if not having read Great Expectations is as much of a detriment as not having read Jane Eyre was to reading The ...

... back up. I am determined to read one of his novels this year. Right now I’m reading Emma by Jane Austen and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. I’ve been re-reading the Thursday Next series (out of order for some reason) and Lost in a Good Book is the last one I have ...

They were used in one of Jasper Fforde's novels, though I can't remember which. I think Lost in a Good Book. There was a footnoterphone which just had me in peals of laughter.

Pickles on Ice Pickles of Death Pickles in Exile Pickle: The Return (this touchstones as ROTK in traditional Chinese characters, but unfortunately it's just combined with the same book in every other language. Sadness). I find the word "pickle" entirely too funny.

... a novel by Thomas Flanagan The undercover economist by Tim Harford The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings Thursday Next in Lost in a Good Book : a novel by Jasper Fforde What a Carve up! by Jonathan Coe A Whack on the Side of the Head : How You Can Be More Creative ...

20. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 21. Another Life by Peter Anghelides

I have only read two Jasper Fforde books. I first read Lost in a Good Book with Thursday Next, which I have to say I simply loved. 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 ...

... where he came from or where he went when he vanished. It was on of the Jurisfiction's lesser mysteries." -pg 177 of Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

... of the Russian Revolution around. And, i just can't resist one book that cries out from the fiction realm: Requiem for a Lost Empire: A Novel by Andrei Makine is lyrical prose written by an extraordinarily talented author. The book tells the story of three generations of a Russi ...

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.

Another visit to the closing local Waldenbooks yields Starship Troopers, Lost in a Good Book, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading, and Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

... linked to Jasper Fforde's website. (http://www.jasperfforde.com) Just click on the bus. It is fourteen years since Thursday Next pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and her son Friday is now sixteen. As previous meetings with the young man might indicate, he should be thinking of entering ...

... other books. For anyone who doesn't know what they're called, I'll list them: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Lost Mirror Mirror While I've read "Confessions" and "Lost" twice each, I've only read "Mirror" once. I'm looking forward to future novels by Maguire, and hope he ...

... far in both series. Below is how many times I've read each of his books: Thursday Next series: The 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 ...

... be VERY long..... Mine would begin with Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy, Mrs. Dalloway, Thursday Next, James Bond, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler and...I am going to stop here and wait for other comments!

... just finished re-reading Wicked last night. The only one of the box-set members that I did not particularly care for was Lost. I felt it lacked a coherent plot line and I couldn't care about any of the characters. #7 - let me know when you finish Son of a Witch! :D

... The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. I'm so glad I found out about Jasper. I quickly read The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book. I can't wait to continue the series.

... as well as having almost every chapter appear in a different style. I immediately started Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book, as I'm being pestered to read the whole series in double-quick time by my other half. Richardderus - permission and forgiveness granted for ...

... Rotten I would recommend going back and reading the earlier Thursday Next books from the begininging: The Eyre Affair, 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 Thur ...

... Rotten I would recommend going back and reading the earlier Thursday Next books from the begininging: The Eyre Affair, 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 Thur ...

... down a little. So yesterday I spent a lovely couple of hours in the bookshop. Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Boo ...