When I was chatting to Make Tea not War, she told me about her current favourite author who writes about a person who can enter books and change the course of the plots. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the author; I want to add it to my list of books/authors to read next time I have a chance to read for pleasure (that is, after I've finished Middlesex, The Da Vinci Code and The Simpsons and Philosophy).
Does anyone know the author or one of the books? Otherwise I'm gonna have to ask her directly.
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Jasper Fforde. Thursday Next being the character. Great books!
Move then to the front of your list. Then you'll get to meet Pickwick! Yay!
If you do meet Pickwick, be sure to act natural when she starts to go 'plock plock'. I can be slightly startling for those who haven't met her before. ;-)
... and be careful with the grammasites and mispeling vyrus! It's a scary place in the bookworld!
Yay! I wanna go re-read them all now!
Thanks, Casyn and Pickwick. But do I get to meet Pickwick by reading the books?
You will meet Pickwick in the books. Some would say she's the best character, but I wouldn't go as far as saying my favourite.
Sadly, you'll never meet me in a book. That's probably a good thing. :-)
I wonder which came first - the blogger or the book character?
Someone at work once photocopied the book covers of a bunch of children's books which had our names in the titles, then glued our cut-out faces on them. I was on a Baby Einstein video. I was very pleased.
What a great idea! If only I worked in a library.
If we are being pedantic, and I know Pickwick does, the book's character came from an even older source. Charles Dickens to be precise. The Pickwick Papers was his first novel.
Bugger, that was me, not Anonymous.
:-)
See, makes me an oldie from waaaay back.
Oh, but it's not me, is it? It's my namesake. Darn.
I read Pickwick Papers - I loved it because I used to live in Edinburgh and recognised heaps of the place names. It may me come over all nostalgic.
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