{"id":291,"date":"2007-07-25T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T03:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/25\/jasper-fforde-discusses-thursday-next-first-among-sequels\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T17:54:14","slug":"jasper-fforde-discusses-thursday-next-first-among-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/jasper-fforde-discusses-thursday-next-first-among-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper Fforde discusses Thursday Next &#8211; First Among Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jasper1.jpg' title='Jasper Fforde 1 small' rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jasper1_sm.jpg' alt='Jasper Fforde 1 small' \/><\/a>I went to see Jasper Fforde give a talk tonight at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/\">Politics and Prose Bookstore<\/a> in Washington, D.C..  [Dylan went with me, but spent the time playing chess on my pda.]  I&#8217;ve read the first book in Fforde&#8217;s Thursday Next series (&#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0670030643\/104-0553807-9763937\">The Eyre Affair<\/a><\/em>&#8220;), and I loved it.  This talk was about the fifth book in that series, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0670038717\/104-0553807-9763937\">Thursday Next, First Among Sequels<\/a><\/em>.  Mr. Fforde is a great speaker &#8211; extremely funny and engaging.  I can&#8217;t wait to find the time to read all the books in this series (as well as his other series, &#8220;Nursery Crimes&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>At the end of his talk, he signed books for people.  I sure am glad we sat on the floor at the front (against a bookcase); the place was packed with hundreds of people.  I was about the 5th person in line, and by the time I got through the line was out the door.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I got to the front, Mr. Fforde asked me if he should make it out to anyone.  I replied, &#8220;a signature is fine &#8211; unless you already know who I am&#8221;.  He (and his partner) then started reciting names, hoping to land on mine.  After about 15, he stopped and she asked &#8220;So what is your name&#8221;?  &#8220;John&#8221;, I replied.  &#8220;Darn.  That was an easy one, how&#8217;d I miss that?&#8221;  Then he smiled so I could take his picture.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jasper2.jpg' title='Jasper Fforde 2 small' rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img src='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jasper2_sm.jpg' alt='Jasper Fforde 2 small' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0670038717\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5106FKc%2BuGL._AA240_.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Jasper Fforde give a talk tonight at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.. [Dylan went with me, but spent the time playing chess on my pda.] I&#8217;ve read the first book in Fforde&#8217;s Thursday Next series (&#8220;The Eyre Affair&#8220;), and I loved it. This talk was about the fifth book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}