Book lover's update

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Today at work I found out that Lauren, who I already liked and is cool, likes the Thursday Next series as well, and is, like me, waiting for The Well of Lost Plots to come out in paperback, and resisting the temptation to buy the hardcover and find out what happens to Thursday.  If you haven't read them, you should go now and find somplace or person who has them and read The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.  They are very funny.  Blurb says they are like Harry Potter meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Monty Python.  It's true.  And they're about a world where Shakespeare is as popular as American Idol is in this.  And there's time travel.  What's not to love?

Also, on the time travel front, I'm currently reading The Time Traveler's Wife.  I'm only about 30 pages in, but it's wonderful.  Highly recommended.  Here's a quote, that I love b/c I know that feeling: "Here all of nature was catured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps a God who had mislaid the original paperwork on the Creation, and had requested the Field Museum staff to help Him out and keep track of it all."  Yep, that's my future job, helping God keep track of the universe. :)

Also, if you like time travel novels, I heartily recommend Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.  Actually, I recommend anything by her.  To Say Nothing of the Dog is my favorite book.  My copy is decidely well loved.  If you live nearby, and want to borrow her novels or her short story collections, give me a call.