Lost in a Good Book : : a Thursday Next Novel

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Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 27, 2013, 12:50pm Anyone who majored in English or literature will adore the "Thursday Next" series with its constant literary allusions. I highly recommend this series that makes lit geeks like myself feel smart.

The series is set in an alternate version England. In it, scientists have cloned and brought back to everyday life neanderthals, dodo birds, wooly mammoths and other creatures. People travel in dirigibles, rather than airplanes. Wales is a separate nation from England and cheese has become a black market commodity. The entire universe and series is highly entertaining.

Thursday Next is a Crimean War veteran (the war still rages on after more than 100 years) and literary detective who investigates crimes related to fiction. She is happily married to another veteran after rescuing him from an unhappy almost-marriage at the end of "The Eyre Affair," in a scene very reminiscent of "Jane Eyre." The two live happily in Swindon with their pet dodo.

Suddenly, Thursday's father, a member of the time-travelling ChronoGuard who are supposed to solve crimes related to the time line, appears to tell her that she must prevent the world from ending due to a pink sludge that her inventor uncle has created.

Meanwhile, Goliath Corporatation, which runs everything, is angry at Thursday for foiling their evil plans in the last book, so they eradicate Thursday's husband from the timeline as if he never existed.

Thursday has her hands full with problems to solve and several more books in which to do so.