What We're Reading: Cathy

One of Our Thursday's is Missing by Jasper Fforde

The written Thursday Next is asked by Jursifiction (the police of the BookWorld) to investigate the break up of a novel that has spread debris over a large area of Fiction Island. The ISBNs have erased from the novel to prevent its identification. While she's investigating, Thursday rescues a mechanical butler named Sprockett, who becomes her assistant in investigations as well as a supplier of odd cocktails. She ends up following clues all over the various genres of Fiction Island and finds out that the Real Thursday Next, who's supposed to help negotiate a peace settlement between Racy Novel and Women's Fiction, is missing. So written Thursday impersonates the real Thursday while hunting for her and even makes a journey into the Real World to find information. Nobody in either world knows where the real Thursday is. Following Thursday through the craziness of BookWorld is great fun but I don't recommend it as an introduction to the series. Start with one of the earlier books like The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, or The Well of Lost Plots.