Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A fun read but current events in Crimea affected the reading

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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My Mom has been trying to get me to read Jasper Fforde books for easily over a decade.  Not sure why I’ve resisted.  Though perhaps it’s due to our different reading preferences.  She only likes a small percentage of recommendations I make .  Naturally, The Murderbot Diaries was one success but mostly I miss.  With how long she’s been persistent I read “The Eyre Affair”, I have felt pressured to like it.  Which has made me drag my feet.  I borrowed it two years ago […]

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The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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“My father had a face that could stop a clock.” Somewhere in the heart of every reader lies the desire to write a series of time-travelling mystery novels in which, among other things, famous books and certainly puns about books, play significant roles. It helps if you’re English like Jasper Fforde or Jodi Taylor, but you can be an Anglophiliac like Connie Stevens, or just you’re own thing like Tim Powers if need be.  This one in particular is quite famous and I think beloved, […]

Things are different in Wales

Ivon by Michael Aylwin

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

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CBRBingo – Sportsball and People As I read Ivon, I couldn’t help thinking that this would be a much better book if Jasper Fforde had written it.  Fforde is a master of taking a crazy premise and populating it with such skillfully drawn living breathing humans that the setting becomes real. This is Aylwin’s first novel, and he isn’t there yet. In the world of Ivon, sport is everything.  Set in our future, after a series of pandemics that killed off all but the fittest, almost all of humanity […]

Racism but with Rabbits

The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

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The same way there are authors who are not for me, there are authors which are. Jasper Fforde is one of them. Authors in the former camp tend to have books that which I’d consider 4* which end up getting pushed down to 3* for me, while with Fforde I feel like the opposite is true. Which is not to say this is a 3* book that I have pushed up to 4*, just that I feel like there’s a bit of leeway he would […]

“The Spontaneous Anthropomorphic Event had taken place before I was born, so rabbits talking, wearing summer dresses or driving cars never seemed that unusual to me.”

The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

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Say one thing for Jasper Fforde, he does what he wants. This is a quintessential 3.5 star book for me, but I was all set and ready to round this up to four stars until the ending happened and totally threw me for a loop. It’s not that I thought the ending was bad, more that I wasn’t expecting it and didn’t quite know how to process it. I may very well come back at some later date and round this up to four stars […]

Jasper Fforde has written a world librarians are basically superheroes.

The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7) by Jasper Fforde

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This wasn’t supposed to be the last book in the Thursday Next series, but it works as a good finale anyway. (Someday we might get Dark Reading Matter? Who knows what Fforde will do next.) I liked this much better than the last one in this series. Actually, I think it’s my favorite in quite some time (not really sure, though, since it’s been so long since I’ve read one through five). I was very relieved at the small presence of the Bookworld. I much […]



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