6-9-08 Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde - Fiction

5 - These are probably most enjoyed by people who have read and enjoyed a good selection of classics, but I'm well enough versed that I get most of the references. Thursday Next is a spunky character willing to make daring and even stupid choices that somehow turn out OK. In this, the second Thursday Next story, Thursday joins the members of Jurisfiction as an apprentice to Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. She gets to see the Great Library and meet the main librarian, the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat (formerly known as the Cheshire Cat until they moved the county boundaries) and begins to learn about being a PRO (Prose Resource Operative). If your teens ask you why they have to read those dull, dusty classics for school, hand them a Thursday Next book and tell them those classics may one day save their life.