Title: Lost In A Good Book (Thursday Next #2)
Author: Jasper Fforde
So much fun. I'm totally addicted to Thursday Next now. And who ever thought Miss Havisham would be a kick-ass book-police mentor? But she totally is.
There's really no way to explain the plots of these books without ruining surprises and workings. So, I'm just going to leave you with a few quotes.
"I took a deep breath and waded into the swirling maelstrom of popular-prose-induced violence. Almost instantly, I was punched in the jaw and thumped in the kidneys."
"She smiled triumphantly as she head-butted a woman who had tried to poke her in the eye with a silver-plated bookmark. I took a step forward to join the fray, the stopped, considered my condition for a moment and decided that perhaps pregnant women shouldn't get involved in bookshop brawls."
"Undeterred, they thumbed through a yellowed statute book and eventually charged me with a little-known 1621 law about permissioning a horse and carte to be driven by personn of low moral turpithtude, but with the "horse and carte" bit crossed out and "car" written in instead- so you can see how desperate they were."
My absolute favorite part of the whole novel involve one character telling another that "For what you've done to me, I hope you rot in Hell." That shit's serious. Seriously awesome.
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