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Something Rotten
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
Tired of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, literary sleuth Thursday Next packs up her son, Friday, to return to Swindon, accompanied by the Danish prince Hamlet, only to find herself coping with outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine, anti-Danish sentiment, the return of Swindon's patron saint, and a seminal croquet tournament. Reprint.
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Rachel.Rencher
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Just finished book 4 and it was the best one in the series so far. I was crying real tears while reading the last chapter. 🥲 Fforde is such a master of writing characters with depth, twisty plot lines, and laugh out loud wit. I'm hooked! Onto the next one...

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Rachel.Rencher
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I finally got my next Fforde book in from Book Outlet! As much as I loved Havisham as Thursday's sidekick, I'm SO excited to see Hamlet take that role as they hunt a clone of Shakespeare. 🤩

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JoyBlue
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You may have noticed that I'm a little behind on my reviews (even though I've kept my usual pace for reading). . . . 🙄

October 2022 reading recap: 10 of 22 books read rated high enough to make the recommended list. https://debbybrauer.org/#october-2022-recap

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JoyBlue
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This is sheer entertainment for a bookish fantasy lover. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#something-rotten-thursday-next-4

4.66⭐

Liatrek Love, Love this series ❤️❤️❤️ 2y
BookNotes Fantastic series! 2y
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Liatrek
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The ending had me in tears ❤️❤️ This series is amazing! I loved the book had illustrations ❤️❤️ #scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter @clwojick #spookween @thespineview #31by31 @Catsandbooks

TheSpineView Fantastic 2y
Catsandbooks Cute kitty! 🐈‍⬛ 2y
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Kristelh
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Fabulous progress!!! 3y
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Gnora
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
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This series is absolutely hilarious. 😂

#audio #scifi #libby #librarybook

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Shemac77
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This series is genius.

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Shemac77
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Afternoon reading.

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Aussie_SFF
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
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Thursday Next is back out in the real world, working on getting her husband back from having been erased in the past, as she has to deal with the social faux pas of his flicking in and out of existence.
Jumping into bed with your father in law who has never actually met you can be difficult to explain.
This and more time paradoxes to come.
5/5 Stars.

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Booksblanketsandahotbeverage
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*Looks outside*
*Looks at the calendar*
*Looks back outside*

Yelp, looks like a reading day. #minnesnowta

tpixie But it is beautiful! enjoy your reading day! How far up north are you? 6y
TheBookgeekFrau Good Lord! 🙇‍♀️ Where is THIS?! 6y
BlameJennyJane Oh my! Are you in the northern Midwest? Snow is gonna miss me by about 30 miles north today. I‘m in central Iowa. 6y
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JanuarieTimewalker13 Oh dear. I think I‘m cold with 50s right now. 6y
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage @tpixie @C.Perone @BlameJennyJane I'm in SE Minnesota ❄️ Yay crazy Minnesota weather... 6y
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage @JanuarieTimewalker13 It's about 33 degrees right now. Luckily, it's not sticking to the driveway. 🤞 6y
tpixie @BookHoarder32 lol Minnesota pulls out all the stops when it comes to different kinds of weather!! Soon you will have beautiful green trees and lovely lakes! And in Kansas I will just have a lot of heat! (edited) 6y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Minnesnowta...that explains everything. My friend lived in Burnsville/Lakeville for 9 years...she moved to Florida after that...lol 6y
TEArificbooks And i have my ac on 6y
BeansPage 😲😲😲 WTAF??? 6y
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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyFeb19 Day 25: But I would argue that the #World is a book being written everyday - that is the entire point of it. Or perhaps that is just something that readers want to believe. I have yet to read the Thursday Next series but I heard that it‘s good??

thegirlwiththelibrarybag They‘re brilliant but I prefer his Nursery Crime Division series 6y
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Lizpixie
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#BookMail Pt8 I think this is Bk4 in the Thursday Next series by Fforde, I‘ve only just bought the first book, The Eyre Affair, recently & haven‘t started it yet but this was on sale at Booktopia.com.au for $4! How could I pass that up? Now I just need to get bk2 & 3👍

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LiterRohde
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“‘Sorry,‘ [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. ‘I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.‘”

On my TBR. I need to get to this series sooner than later.

#QuotsyJune18 | 14: #Rotten

📷: Made with Typorama

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AngieAvers
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Something Rotten is, for me, probably the pinnacle of fiction, and also of the Thursday next series of books by Jasper Fforde. He is a literary genius. For every cultural or literary tidbit he has hidden in the prose, I am confident there are as many that I've missed. It's an unrestrained frolic of prose. The Goliath Corporation is taking over Thursday's Real World, and Text Grand Central polices the Written World.

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Johanna414
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
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Today's #BookHaul brought to you by my #LibraryBookSale ! All the YA titles are going to work with me for prizes (except Harry Potter which will replace a worn copy). The King and Sanderson are my husband's and the 2 cat books are gifts from my grandparents. Apparently they had beat me to the books sale and just knew I had to have those books! 😉
But I did buy the Jasper Fforde books for myself...

mjdowens I am currently reading my first Branden Sanderson book now 7y
Johanna414 @mjdowens I've read a couple of his YA books and the first 2 Mistborn books but my husband is obsessed with him. He already has one copy of this book - he bought this for $1 so he could loan it to friends without worrying about them damaging it... 7y
mjdowens @Johanna414 That is a great idea👍 7y
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Jas16
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Some #twowordtitles from my shelves. This was much easier than I thought it would be. #anditsaugust

elkeOriginal Nice variety! 7y
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Lynnsoprano
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Well! I never expected that I would be crying at the end of one of these books. Such a beautiful ending! Each one in this series gets better and better. Plus, I finished just in time. We are headed to Orlando tomorrow to babysit our granddaughter, so I can return this to our DIL and borrow the next one.

monkeygirlsmama Gotta love that cover. 7y
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Lynnsoprano
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If it's Tuesday, it must be coffee and books, even though I'm reading about Thursday 😄

GeekGrl82 I love Jasper! 7y
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eclecticreading
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
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Long weekend reading 😄📖 #currentlyreading

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Kangaj1
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KimHM Love! ! the Tuesday Next books 7y
moranadatter Challenge accepted! 7y
Mdargusch Nice pile there! 7y
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Lynnsoprano
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Yikes! I feel as if I've been AWOL from Litsy. It's been a while since I've gone this long between posts. I am actually working this week, as a clinician at a choral workshop for high school singers. It's fun, but a shock to my retired system 😄 Yesterday was an early morning doctor appointment, though, with fasting blood work, so naturally hubby and I made a stop afterwards for breakfast and books.

robinb Welcome back! 7y
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Lynnsoprano
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Our last day of vacation. We spent the morning on the beach, but left when it started to thunder. So I'm spending the afternoon attempting to read, but distracted by the view from our balcony. I may cry when we cross the bridge to the mainland tomorrow morning.

Sace What a beautiful view! 7y
RealBooks4ever That went fast! 😢 7y
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Lynnsoprano
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This is up next. Taking Thursday to the beach with me.

SheilaChew I love those books! 7y
drbethandherkindle @SheilaChew Same! I love Thursday! 7y
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Readerann
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Audiobook highly recommended for this wild ride (anyone who has read it will 'get' the Hamlet reference). #boutofbooks

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Heideschrampf
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tpixie I love his Tuesday Next series! 8y
tpixie And your Food looks delish! 8y
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Heideschrampf
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Reading Thursday Next and listening to Amanda Palmer's new album #bathsandbooks 🕯🛁📖💞🎧

tpixie Great cover! And the ? Painting? Album cover?? On the left is intriguing! (edited) 8y
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Readerann
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For some weird reason, this series make me think of the Richard Scarry books my kids loved. There's so much going on in so many different directions, it can be overwhelming. Let me also add that Fforde is wacky, silly, funny, extremely clever, and obviously well-read. This is first up for #boutofbooks. Can't resist a readathon, even right after Dewey's.

smilingshelves I just finished this one yesterday. Jasper Fforde is awesome! 8y
Readerann @smilingshelves I'd love to meet him. I'll bet he's an entertaining guy! 8y
tpixie I love this series!! Yes JF must have a very brilliant mind! 8y
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Tex2Flo
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KarenUK Perfect! 😍 8y
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lilredhen
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Seems familiar..

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hattiek
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I find myself needing to carve out a tiny slice of joy each day at the moment. In Feb I am going to take part in #riotgrams to do just that. Today a shelfie.

ardoomer Love the "people are particularly stupid today" ?? 8y
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Ais
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I just ADORE this series! This was my favourite one by far. More book puns, more Hamlet and an amazing game of croquet❤️❤️❤️

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Yeeeesss! That croquet game! 7y
Ais Just amazing! 7y
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Ais
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Time to throw this bad boy into the mix😊 any chance of extending the Christmas break🙈

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MargaretPinardAuthor
Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde
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I got to do recommendations at the bookshop! #AnotherReadThrough on N Mississippi in #pdx has some great books, y'all:
Jasper Fforde: plan for guffaw breaks.
Carol Goodman: beautiful truths covered in Celtic mist
Sarah Vowell: screamingly hilarious historical commentator
Melanie Rawn: fabulous fantasy world of dragons, talking on light, & treachery
Edith Wharton: master of the subtle slight, leader in the maze of gilded age New York society
:)

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angelgumangan
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A Jasper Fforde never fail to amaze and entertain me. I love the literary cross-overs. it makes you love them more. 💝💝💝💝

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silentrequiem
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#booktober Day 16: #greatfirstlines
All the Thursday Next books have great first lines, but this one is fantastic in its absurdity.

tpixie Yes! 8y
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tnorris
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August TBR pile! There are a couple of audio/ebooks not shown here. I approach my monthly to-read list like I would ordering food when hungry! So I may not get through my whole list ☺️🤓📚 #bookphotochallenge

TheLondonBookworm Jasper Fforde is hilarious!! I love his Thursday Next books :) 8y
RiotMom I've been needing to get to that Pierce Brown! Can't wait to see what you think! 8y
MrBook Nice stack! You've got a Fforde! 😊 8y
TheSpinecrackersBookClub Beautiful pic! 8y
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kjhower1
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"To espresso or to latte, that is the question." I can't help but sympathize with Hamlet in this moment.

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