On my list

So many books, so little time. I've been wanting to read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (PB FFO) for ages. Since I haven't yet gotten to it, I'll steal the blurb from the back cover:

"Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide."

New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani is quoted as saying that Thursday Next is "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry." An unbeatable combination.

This is the first of four Thursday Next books, all published since 2001. I'd better get started -