QotD: I'm reading (or about to read)...
What books are on your nightstand?
Yes, I wouldn't pass up a post on books. It's still book season for me. :D
Right now I am reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, which is the first book in the Thursday Next series. I've read the last book so now I'm sort of connecting the characters I've read about in the last book to the characters that are being introduced in this book. I'm almost halfway through and I'm liking it a lot. :D Thursday Next is such a lovable Nancy Drew-like character that I'd love to have her job, if a world like hers exist.
In this book, Thursday Next comes back to Swindon because her future self told her to go back there and work in the Swindon LiteraTec (Literary Detectives, SO-27) to follow Acheron Hades, the unnaturally evil being who killed two of her colleagues back in London. Hades was up to something bad, and when Jane Eyre disappears from the novel, Thursday knew Hades was connected to it somehow. That, and with her Uncle and Aunt being kidnapped as well as fixing her love life, Thursday is in for a busy time.
I can't wait to see how this turns out. :D I've said this before and I'll say it again. Jasper Fforde is a genius. :)
Other books that are in my to-read list are the following:
- The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Other books will be added here once they arrive (from packages sent) or when I get to buy them. :D
