I-love-Thursday!

There's a book series I LOVE- The Thursday Next series. I highly recommend them. 

High-ly. 

It's a book for people who like books. It's been a while since I've been this impressed with a series, but let me tell you, this CHARACTER knocks my socks off. 

I've been having conversations with various people about character- staying true to a character in writing and their moral code. I read a book as of late that changes her own supposed moral code of conduct that it gave me whiplash. What I like about the Thursday Next series is that you can always rest assure that Thursday will always do the right thing. Not always legal thing, but always the RIGHT thing. That never changes. 

Besides the fact it's an excellent STORY. Adventure, wit, and the characters that you love! I can't get enough. 

I went to a book signing in October? November? of Jasper Fforde and he made some comment about how she could have been, but he opted to take the road less traveled. She's married and has two/three kids. She has a seemingly normal job, besides jumping in and out of the bookworld on the side to save them from rogue minotaurs and grammersites. (It all makes sense, I swear.. just don't ask me to explain)

She's just a good person and has a good head on her shoulders. 

And it's because I have a sensible head on my shoulders that I won't torture my future daughter by naming her Thursday. But I would. 

Facts about Thursday Next: 

1.  Thursday Next is the unlikely-monikered heroine of a series of novels by British writer Jasper Fforde. 

2.  The novels are set on an alternate Earth in which time travel is very much possible, cloning has brought back extinct species, Wales is a communist nation, and, most surprising of all, books and literary figures are as popular as movies and movie stars in our world.  As a result, Thursday’s occupation is Literary Detective, working for the government on book-related crimes. 

3.  The novels are also set in an alternate world within the alternate Earth, a “BookWorld” in which figures from books are alive, acting in their own stories when their books are being read and living their own lives in the down time between reads. 

4.  In the first Thursday Next book, The Eyre Affair, a despicable villain threatens to cause chaos and social upheaval by altering the texts of beloved books unless his demands are met.  (Thursday defeats him, natch.)

5.  Spoiler!  – Also in the first book, Jane Eyre, which is wildly popular with modern audiences, ends with Jane not marrying Rochester but going to India with her cousin.  Thursday manages to change the ending to the one with which  readers in our world are familiar.  (No offense, Jane, but really that cousin was a bit of a stick.)

6.  Spoiler! – In a later book, Thursday watches a much-needed anger management session for the characters in Wuthering Heights (a book which author Fforde seems to feel is perhaps a bit overrated.)

7.  Spoiler! – Also in later books, Thursday has two children (Friday and Tuesday) but, due to a recurring hallucination implanted in her mind by an enemy, continually believes she has a third (Jenny).  (Hate it when that happens!)

8.   Spoiler! – At one point, Thursday’s husband keeps getting erased from (and added back into) existence, which is rather inconvenient.  (I’m sure we’ve all had a similar experience.)

9.  Miss Havisham from Great Expectations appears in some of the books and surprisingly turns out to be a pretty kick-ass, action-oriented detective.