{"id":365,"date":"2008-05-15T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-05-16T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T20:01:14","slug":"lost-in-a-good-book-by-jasper-fforde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/lost-in-a-good-book-by-jasper-fforde\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Read 9\/18\/2007]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0142004030\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51P3QS9JQ5L._SL210_.jpg'><\/a>Mystery\/Fantasy\/SF <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0142004030\/104-0553807-9763937\"><em>Lost in a Good Book<\/em><\/a>is the 2nd of Fforde&#8217;s Thursday Next (Literary Detective) series (after <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0670030643\/104-0553807-9763937\">The Eyre Affair<\/a>).  Thursday is assigned to investigate the discovery of a lost Shakespeare play, <em>&#8220;Cardenia&#8221;<\/em>.  She runs up against Yorrick Kaine, a neofascist (whig) politician (and, who might also be someone else).<\/p>\n<p>Thursday is also blackmailed by the Goliath Corporation, who want their operative Jack Schitt back; Next had imprisoned him in Poe&#8217;s <em>The Raven<\/em>.  To get her to bring him back, they get a corrupt ChronoGuard agent (Lavoisier) to have her husband killed off (eradicated).  Landon is thus killed when he is 2 years old and Thursday (also pregnant with his child) is the only one who remembers him.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday enters the Book World as a Jurisfiction trainee under Mrs. Haversham (of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0141439564\/104-0553807-9763937\">Great Expectations<\/a><\/em>).  She gets Schitt out of the Raven, but is double-crossed.  She decides to hide in Book World, in &#8220;The Well of Lost Plots&#8221; (where all fiction is created).  She thinks she&#8217;ll be safe in the Character Exchange Program for awhile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Read 9\/18\/2007] Mystery\/Fantasy\/SF Lost in a Good Bookis the 2nd of Fforde&#8217;s Thursday Next (Literary Detective) series (after The Eyre Affair). Thursday is assigned to investigate the discovery of a lost Shakespeare play, &#8220;Cardenia&#8221;. She runs up against Yorrick Kaine, a neofascist (whig) politician (and, who might also be someone else). Thursday is also blackmailed [&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\/365"}],"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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}