Welcome to Litsy!

Starting book 3 in this series! I am hooked. 😍

Notice the Amazon box on our fireplace? When we moved in over summer, we had a bat colony living in there due to a broken damper. We had experts come look at removal, but they said couldn't happen until August. We called again in Sept, and they said they wouldn't remove the bats until we had our chimney fixed. The chimney guy said he wouldn't fix it until he knew the bats were gone. (Go to comments)

Absolutely loving the Thursday Next series. The story abs world building is so imaginative and original. I can‘t wait to start the next one. #scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter #20in4 @andrew65 @clwojick #spookween @thespineview #31by31 @Catsandbooks

Finally getting dressed so I can mark off a couple more #readathon bingo squares

Anyone ever see a book in a series in a used bookstore and buy it as a reminder that I want to buy the whole series? Love #thursdaynext novels!

#wonderouswednesday @eggs
1) Well of Lost Plots was my last 5 star book. I can not go past a book that makes me laugh!
2)I will bail on a book if they have too much exposition in the opening chapter(s). I would much rather get to know the characters than have them vomited at me.
3) My new favorite is James Islington who wrote The Shadow of What Was Lost.

Thursday is hiding out in the out in a generic murder mystery in the making down in the well of lost plots. That does not mean she is safe at work at Jurisfiction where the newest operating system for books is ready to roll out and she is still dealing with the repercussions of changing the end of Jane Eyre. The books are great! So funny. 5/5 stars.

Unique and fun. Love this series.

Can‘t wait to dive in.

“Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.”

#QuotsyFeb20 | 20: #Thursday

📷: Made with Typorama

This (the third) installment in the Thursday Next series might be my favorite so far! There's a little bit of mystery, a fair amount of action, and a whole lot of bookish silly fun!

This series continues to be incredibly entertaining. I didn‘t love it as much as the second one, but the level of creativity here is still astounding. I‘ll definitely be listening to the rest - the audiobook narration is excellent. (Also, Pickwick 💕)

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing... readers... should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Books - are a kind of magic.

#libraryhaul
Continuing my Thursday Next / Jasper Fforde read-a-thon and picked up the print version of Shades of Grey so i can alternate with the audiobook 😁

Just gonna leave this here...

I can always on count on Jasper Fforde for just the right kind of ridiculousness.

If you've never read Jasper Fforde you should. In his England you can literary fall into a book, change your name to a favourite author or character and getting a degree in literature can get you a government position.

I've read this book before. I am working my way through the series again. I do love this book. I think this is where Fforde's creativity really begins to shine. The Nursery Crime series spun off from the book in this series. I am so eager to continue with the remaining books. I also read this in 3/2009.

Having a hard time getting into this 3rd book of the series....

Jasper Fforde is the author who makes me happiest, with his utterly absurdist brand of humor and bookishness.

Congrats @Lizpixie on hitting 1,000 followers, and thanks for the giveaway! #1000pixiedust

Luckily the #cursive on these covers in no way resembles my illegible scrawl. #fallintobooks

I've read several rave reviews of this book, and I very much enjoyed the first two in the series. Jasper Fforde is terribly clever, of that there is no doubt. I felt that what passes for a plot in this book was little more than a collection of "Jasper Fforde is so very clever" moments loosely stitched together and tied up in a clever little bow in the last 20 pages. Maybe I read it during The Bookies.

I'm beginning to think the title of this book is a bit too apt. 111 pages in, and I have yet to see even the faintest glimmer of plot on the horizon. Stick with it, or bail?

This is a very weird series. Wholly bizarre. But I like bizarre. I feel at home there.

#characters2017 Who better than Thursday Next to exemplify #Gryffindor?

This series just keeps getting better and better. Bookworld is such an interesting environment, and the characters just keep getting more inventive. Even though I have so many plans for my TBR, I really want to read the next book NOW! I enjoy jumping down this rabbit hole.

Music lessons start in about an hour, but hubby is cooking dinner tonight, so I am just chilling with passion ice tea and Thursday Next. I need to finish this by Friday, because our son and DIL and the baby😍😍 will be here for the weekend. Plus, I borrowed the book from their library, and I want to send it home with them.

#Litsypartyofone I'm not getting as much reading done as I'd hoped, because the college World Series is on. At least baseball is one sport where I can watch and still read.

Getting in a little partying for #Litsypartyofone before I get ready for the karaoke pot luck we're going to this evening. And my bookmark is from @MyBookZleeves ! Although the last time I did the test, I was put in Ravenclaw (which is actually where I think I belong).

I normally take my nonfiction read along for our Tuesday coffee and books outing, but I'm enjoying this so much that it was today's choice. It would also be because I haven't started a new nonfiction 😄

#currentread Just about to start this, which I borrowed from our son. I am so hooked on this series.

My favorite SF novel is number 3 in Jasper Fforde's delightful Thursday Next series. It's the best one (I will fight people on this) - who wouldn't want to live inside books?!? (Well, OK. It can be kind of dangerous.) This is the only one of Fforde's book tours I've ever managed to catch so this is a precious, precious copy. Signed AND grammasite free 😜

#READATHONBLOB (best hashtag is best)

"Macbeth Retold for Yeast" ??

#AprilBookShowers- While they're not really about #mythology, there is a Minotaur on the loose in some of the books in the Thursday Next series.

#springflingreading #Fauthor #Fauthors Just a few authors with last name F.
@jess.how

SPA weekend with my mom. Heavenly!

Lol...I have clearly checked out of watching the Super Bowl!

Continuing ambling through Thursday Next novels. Stopped to update what I had read in January-I'm keeping it simple for sanity's sake-using a MiGOALS planner to track what I read as well as what I am reviewing on my website.

This one has a story... I purchased this UK edition before the US pub date, in an NYC bookstore. When the book came out in the US, I was living near San Francisco & Fforde did a signing nearby. But my copy was in LA, on loan to @KristyJ - so I bought her a copy & had it signed in SF, and she took my copy to a signing in LA. When she met Fforde & explained the situation, he said, "Oh, right! Your friend said you'd be here!" ??#signed #readjanuary

WOLP is a delightful view of the Book World. I will never look at my Nano novels and their collection of characters the same way again! That said there is a rather timely warning at the end when Tweed (an antagonist I rather liked) warned Thursday about revealing the "truth". The speech remind me of Outer Limits-- "we control the vertical..." #24in48

Spending my evening in the Well of Lost Plots... I will never look at my side characters in my writing quite the same way again. #24in48 #readathon

"Just when I think I have the galaxy at my mercy, some hopelessly outnumbered young hothead destroys my most insidious death machine using some hitherto-undiscovered weakness. I'm suing the manufacturer after that last debacle." Back to Thursday and the Book World. Any resemeblance is intentional.

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️ this series!

A perfect, light Saturday Read!

#somethingforsept #septemberphotochallenge #favoritevillain
Good old Mrs. Danvers, though I prefer the cloned army of many Mrs. Danvers that is usually deployed to fight the Mispeling Vyrus inside the book world of Thursday Next. She is super creepy in "Rebecca", but they come in handy in "The Well of Lost Plots" ?

I just can't with this book (series)
#loveit #readit #laughingoutloud

@24in48 @Litsy - a title that might describe my life....? Also just a fun book on its own. 👍🏼 #24in48

I'm racing though the Thursday Next series! They're just too much fun, I get lost in them only to resurface 300 pages later and find it's time for the next installment!!

Highly recommended if you're in a reading slump or just want something goofy, but bookish!

Love the relationship between Thursday and Miss Havisham (plus how H is even more amazing once pulled from the pages of Dickens).