Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…
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The Write Teacher(s) October Bookshelf
Happy October, my fellow readers. I know it’s cliché, but the crisp, beautiful weather of October always makes me think of that passage in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables: “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” This month, we’re excited to read the following books: Small Great Things…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Well of Lost Plots
Dear Bookworms, For every book that is published and sent out into the world, there are at least eight that remain, for one reason or another, unpublished and unheard of – well, unheard of by you and I anyway. Literature, as we know from the other Thursday Next adventures, is a world unto itself in…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1)
Dear Bookworms, There are some things that only true readers really understand. The delight in the smell of an old book, the thrill over a long-anticipated copy of a favorite author’s newest work, that hollow sense of aimlessness after you’ve finished a long series, or the excitement of discovering a new series and knowing there…