![]() ![]() ![]() In this world where high lit matters, Special Operative Thursday Next (literary detective) seeks to retrieve the stolen manuscript of Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit. For pennies, corner Will-Speak machines will quote Shakespeare Richard III is performed with audience participation … la Rocky Horror and children swap Henry Fielding bubble-gum cards. The scene: Great Britain circa 1985, but a Great Britain where literature has a prominent place in everyday life. ![]() There are not a lot of bookworms who haven´t enjoyed Jasper Fforde´s Thursday Next series but since this is a bibliophilic book (see challenge here) I still get to review and rave about it! I reread The Eyre Affair yesterday, it was the perfect day to stay inside with a great book and a cup of hot tea. Like that fateful day a couple of years ago when I picked up a bright red book because of the dodo on the cover. We are so often told not to judge a book by its cover- but it often turns out great if you break a rule. ![]()
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