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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the sixth novel of the renowned Thursday Next series, “geeky humor jostles with genuine insight” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as Thursday embarks on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England.

[One of Our Thursdays Is Missing] is jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns, and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans.”—Los Angeles Times
 
Thursday Next is back! . . . Or at least one of her is.

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. Then, a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes.
 
But all is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, who labors to keep her own small series from the grim specter of being remaindered. Now she must answer the call, save the BookWorld, evade capture, and find the actual Thursday! With her clockwork butler Sprockett and her Designated Love Interest Whitby Jet in tow, written Thursday reluctantly agrees to undertake an investigation for Jurisfiction—only to realize that she must journey up the mysterious Metaphoric River and visit the RealWorld to find the answers.

Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels:
THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 17, 2011
      With the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Department, in Fforde's wild and wacky sixth BookWorld novel (after Thursday Next: First Among Sequels). As written Thursday Next finds herself playing roles intended for her real counterpart, BookWorld's elite try to deal with a border dispute between Racy Novel and Women's Fiction. It's not always possible to know where one is in BookWorld, which has been drastically remade, or in Fforde's book, which shares the madcap makeup of Alice in Wonderland, even borrowing Alice's dodo. Outrageous puns (e.g., a restaurant called Inn Uendo) and clever observations relating to the real book world (e.g., the inhabitants of "Vanity" island now prefer Self-Published or Collaborative) abound. Fforde's diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a "mimefield" both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that's a minefield of unexpected and amusing twists. 10-city author tour.

    • Kirkus

      February 1, 2011

      Any intersection between Fforde's novels and a recognizably real world are almost entirely coincidental, for he's most at home in constructing insouciant (and elaborate) literary fantasies.

      Thursday Next, the protagonist of many of the author's previous novels, is back...or rather, she's not, for she's the missing girl of the title. And although she vanishes, the written Thursday Next does not. The plot involves the search for the "real" Thursday Next, when she disappears a week before peace talks preceding the possible outbreak of a genre war, so the written Thursday Next sets out to find her. (Yes, it's all a bit confusing, and Fforde has great fun ringing changes on this confusion.) Written Thursday Next is on the case, exploring the various byways of BookWorld and eventually going up the mighty Metaphoric River, with its echoes of Conrad. Of course, in Fforde's fictive world almost everything has some kind of literary echo: Cabbies take the written Thursday to Norland Park (from Sense and Sensibility); she meets Jay Gatsby's less famous brother, the Loser Gatsby (younger sibling to the Mediocre Gatsby); she learns that Heathcliff is riding the same train she is (and notes "a lot of screaming and fainting girls on the platform whenever we stopped"); has drinks at the Bar Humbug; and comes across signs like "Do Not Feed the Ambiguity." Fforde, of course, finds all of this highly diverting and even includes sly references to The Eyre Affair, an earlier Thursday Next novel. To appreciate Fforde, it's both helpful and essential for a reader to have a substantial literary background. While some of the gags are sly and work well (for example, the confusion about whether a character named Red Herring is actually a red herring), others are rather forced and seem to exist solely for the sake of a punch line ("I think we've driven into a mimefield").

      Your appreciation of Fforde will depend solely on your tolerance for self-conscious, and occasionally slick, literary cleverness.

      (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

    • Library Journal

      November 15, 2010

      Where's Thursday Next when you need her? A Genre war is raging in the BookWorld, but Thursday has retired to the Realworld. In desperation, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday for help. Got that? Fforde returns to his Thursday series after the dystopian (but still funny) Shades of Grey and should sustain that series' success. With a ten-city tour.

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Library Journal

      February 15, 2011

      When we last saw intrepid Jurisfiction cop Thursday Next (in Thursday Next: First Among Sequels), she was, once again, kicking butt while saving both the real world and the world of literature. However, just as the BookWorld faces a major geopolitical crisis, Thursday has gone missing. Can her BookWorld equivalent, the written Thursday, find her in time to prevent war among genres? Written Thursday is less than confident as she struggles with snippy coworkers, a substitute who hits the hyphens hard and brings home goblins, relentless and homicidal Men in Plaid, and a foreboding trip up the Metaphoric River. But written Thursday does have a stellar butler, Sprockett, and her likeness to the real Thursday is very useful in the investigation, if confusing to those around her. More concerned with the inner workings of BookWorld than the alterna-England of the real Thursday, this entry gives a backstage view of the world of literature and just what happens to characters when their books aren't being read. VERDICT More metafiction fun from the best-selling Fforde--maybe not the easiest place to join the series, but a must-read for fans. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/10.]--Devon Thomas, DevIndexing, Chelsea, MI

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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