The Fourth Bear

The second in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime Series, The Fourth Bear was a great book.  The Nursery Crime division, headed by Detective Jack Spratt, investigates all crimes that could possibly relate to a Nursery Rhyme. 

I really enjoyed the first book in this series, The Big Over Easy, was good, but this book passed it by leaps and bounds.  I think that Fforde hit his stride with this one and now weaves the nursery characters and their stories together with ease.  Don’t think this a story for kids – this a thinker with lots of adult humour!

First Among Sequels a Thursday Next Novel

Okay we already know that I love the Thursday Next series.  I have been waiting for First Among Sequelsto come out in paperback.  This may surprise you because I love my hardbacks, but the rest of the series I have in paperback and since I a little, okay a lot, OCD I crave uniformity over my hardbacks!

The waiting did not disappoint.  I loved this book.  In some ways I think it may be the best Next book so far.  I say this because of the story line and the way in which it was told.  There were great dynamics between the characters and Fforde’s humour did not disappoint.  The only thing I felt like I was missing was the play on literature.  Unless I missed it, which is possible given the speed at which I read, there was not as much of the play on literature in this book as in others.  However, I still love it terribly!

The Big Over Easy

I finished The Big Over Easy a few weeks ago, I just haven’t written.  It was excellent and I am looking forward to reading The Fourth Bear.   I can’t reccommend Jaspar Fforde to you enough!!!

I am currently reading The Pig Did It.  It’s okay.  Not a re-read.  But it’s okay.  It is my doc’s office book right now. 

Velocity by Dean Koontz

I finished Velocity by Dean Koontz this weekend.  I had been taking this book to the allergist with me.  I have to sit there for 20 minutes (at the very least) so it was a great opportunity to get some reading done.

The book was pretty good.  It had me intrigued with in the first 50 pages and kept it through the end.  My one complaint – The story was properly stretched out through the whole book, but the ending was wrapped up in less than 25 pages.   All of sudden everything happened and it was pretty anti-climatic.

Much like the first Dean Koontz book I read, The Watchers, I enjoyed the book, I just don’t see me re-reading the book.

I think that must be one of things I look for in a book – the ability for the book to be read and read again, new things discovered each time and yet still intriguing. 

I started The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde today.  It’s my book for the doc’s office right now.  I might start another one to enjoy at home!