quasigeostrophy | Next! (crossposted to bookwhores

Just finished The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. It's the third book in his series about Literary Detective Thursday Next and her adventures in the real and book worlds, begun in the fabulous The Eyre Affair and continued in Lost in a Good Book.

The several loose threads left at the end of the second book are not all wrapped up. This is sort of a meanwhile with regard to some of the main plot lines, as Thursday hides in an unpublished book in order to rest and regroup. It provides a whimsical, fantastic, and hilarious look at several aspects of literature. For example, we learn why it is that certain -our ending words are spelled -or in the U. S., why sometimes very highly recommended books turn out not to be very good, and how characters and plot devices come to be (and we've always thought the authors were responsible!). :-)

I highly recommend this series, but don't start with this one. Fforde doesn't waste much space rehashing the entire universe and its differences from our own (and there are many significant ones).

I'm very much looking forward to the fourth episode, which is due, at least in the U. K., in July. So, I'm stuck in another series! :-)

For my next read, I was thinking I wanted to read another Pratchett book, but I also hadn't read anything by Neil Gaiman in a while, and it just so happens that I haven't read Good Omens yet, so away I go...