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pluralstories “I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”
Blurb: Second book in a series; The Eyre Affair is the first. "When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday Next must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction - the police force inside the BookWorld. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth."
Why is it worth your time?: Much like the first book, it's pretty good and enjoyable, especially if you're a book nerd. Watching Thursday Next, a fictional character who thinks she's not, talk about fictionality with people who are fictional characters even in the context of her life, is fun. She also gets to talk to her nonexistent-husband in her dreams, and he helps her figure out a key plot point. (She also talks with her deceased nemesis.)
Plural Tags: fictivity, introjects, abuse not mentioned, memory work, otherworld
Content Warnings: contain spoilers; see comments
Access Notes: Available as ebook, audio book, and paper book, in many editions. This is easy to find in libraries. Has been translated into German and French (and presumably Spanish, since the third book was and who translates a third book but not the second?)
Blurb: Second book in a series; The Eyre Affair is the first. "When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday Next must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction - the police force inside the BookWorld. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth."
Why is it worth your time?: Much like the first book, it's pretty good and enjoyable, especially if you're a book nerd. Watching Thursday Next, a fictional character who thinks she's not, talk about fictionality with people who are fictional characters even in the context of her life, is fun. She also gets to talk to her nonexistent-husband in her dreams, and he helps her figure out a key plot point. (She also talks with her deceased nemesis.)
Plural Tags: fictivity, introjects, abuse not mentioned, memory work, otherworld
Content Warnings: contain spoilers; see comments
Access Notes: Available as ebook, audio book, and paper book, in many editions. This is easy to find in libraries. Has been translated into German and French (and presumably Spanish, since the third book was and who translates a third book but not the second?)
