Jasper Fforde Ffan

[primrose777]

@ Maud Thankyou so much for the orderly list. Just how I like it, love lists. I shall now methodically work my way through . So happy I have no1.

[Maud Fitch]

@ Fran.
Thanks for the enlightment. I must say that I am totally gobsmacked. There is absolutely nothing in Australia to compare with Bloomsday Day. The best we have managed is National Year Of Reading 2012.

@ Primrose.
I enjoy a good list, too. As Fran said, tell us your thoughts once you've read The Eyre Affair. Jasper writes literary twists, definitely off-the-wall, but also of the laugh-out-loud variety.

[Fran]

@ Fran.
Thanks for the enlightment. I must say that I am totally gobsmacked. There is absolutely nothing in Australia to compare with Bloomsday Day. The best we have managed is National Year Of Reading 2012.

@ Primrose.
I enjoy a good list, too. As Fran said, tell us your thoughts once you've read The Eyre Affair. Jasper writes literary twists, definitely off-the-wall, but also of the laugh-out-loud variety.

@Maud
This will give you an idea of what goes on ...... http://www.jamesjoyce.ie
Maybe you should inaugurate a Colleen McCullough day

[Maud Fitch]

@Maud
.....Maybe you should inaugurate a Colleen McCullough day.

@ Fran.
Thanks for that fantastic James Joyce link.
I've been holding off responding to your excellent CMcC suggestion because I thought Gannon may want to jump in. We just missed a good opportunity - Colleen McCullough celebrated her birthday on 1st June. Perhaps Gannon would prefer Julius Caesar Day!

Anyhow, I can't see why Wales hasn't instigated a Jasper Fforde Day. He already holds the annual Fforde Ffiesta weekend, has real Welsh locations in his books and Swindon officially named streets after characters in the Thursday Next series.

[Fran]

@Maud
.....Maybe you should inaugurate a Colleen McCullough day.

@ Fran.
Thanks for that fantastic James Joyce link.
I've been holding off responding to your excellent CMcC suggestion because I thought Gannon may want to jump in. We just missed a good opportunity - Colleen McCullough celebrated her birthday on 1st June. Perhaps Gannon would prefer Julius Caesar Day!

Anyhow, I can't see why Wales hasn't instigated a Jasper Fforde Day. He already holds the annual Fforde Ffiesta weekend, has real Welsh locations in his books and Swindon officially named streets after characters in the Thursday Next series.

Fforde Ffiesta weekend ........ I love it

[Gannon]

***** JASPER FFORDE MISSING BOOK UPDATE [b]*****[/b]

I emailed the store that I have ordered "The Fourth Bear" from, and got a lovely reply from the owner. He said that surface mail can take up to sixty (yes folks, I said sixty) days. He said if it has not turned up by, I forget the date, that he is going to track it down for me.

***** [b]END OF MESSAGE[b] *****
***** this message will self-destruct in five seconds *****

(do you think that five seconds was long enough for them to read it, has it even self-destructed yet? WHAT THE.....)

[Fran]

***** JASPER FFORDE MISSING BOOK UPDATE [b]*****[/b]

I emailed the store that I have ordered "The Fourth Bear" from, and got a lovely reply from the owner. He said that surface mail can take up to sixty (yes folks, I said sixty) days. He said if it has not turned up by, I forget the date, that he is going to track it down for me.

***** [b]END OF MESSAGE[b] *****
***** this message will self-destruct in five seconds *****

(do you think that five seconds was long enough for them to read it, has it even self-destructed yet? WHAT THE.....)

Good Lord, Gannon, even Captain Cook didn't take that long to get to Australia. I really don't know how you can have the patience to wait so long for a book, the anticipation would have me driven crazy.

[Maud Fitch]

KA-BOOOM !!!!!

Gannon, your message self-destructed before I could read it. Thanks to Fran's quick thinking in quoting it, I am able to ascertain that your book is walking towards Australia. I know these organisations have to quote an arrival date but it would have been much better if they had over-estimated so that you weren't left in this state of suspended animation. If worse comes to worst, I can lend you my ordinary old unsigned copy!

I'm with Fran re patience; actually I think any author would be extremely pleased at how determined you are.

[Gannon]

KA-BOOOM !!!!!

Gannon, your message self-destructed before I could read it. Thanks to Fran's quick thinking in quoting it, I am able to ascertain that your book is walking towards Australia. I know these organisations have to quote an arrival date but it would have been much better if they had over-estimated so that you weren't left in this state of suspended animation. If worse comes to worst, I can lend you my ordinary old unsigned copy!

I'm with Fran re patience; actually I think any author would be extremely pleased at how determined you are.

@Maud and Fran

Hahaha, Oh Maud you crack me up. I think my book was actually walking and everything was going fine and dandy until it got to this massive body of water called the "English Channel". At that stage it got all confused because when it tried to cross it started to get wet. In a blind panic it took off and nobody knows where it is. I assume it is hiding in a library somewhere. Maybe it has been kidnapped by a gang of Kindles who recognized Jasper's signature and are holding it for ransom. I notified the authorities and they have a squad of police notebooks out looking now.

Don't you love this beautiful weather we are having at the moment Maud? I hope you and Fran have a fantastic week.

[Maud Fitch]

KA-BOOOM !!!!!

Gannon, your message self-destructed before I could read it. Thanks to Fran's quick thinking in quoting it, I am able to ascertain that your book is walking towards Australia. I know these organisations have to quote an arrival date but it would have been much better if they had over-estimated so that you weren't left in this state of suspended animation. If worse comes to worst, I can lend you my ordinary old unsigned copy!

I'm with Fran re patience; actually I think any author would be extremely pleased at how determined you are.

@ Maud and Fran

Hahaha, Oh Maud you crack me up. I think my book was actually walking and everything was going fine and dandy until it got to this massive body of water called the "English Channel". At that stage it got all confused because when it tried to cross it started to get wet. In a blind panic it took off and nobody knows where it is. I assume it is hiding in a library somewhere. Maybe it has been kidnapped by a gang of Kindles who recognized Jasper's signature and are holding it for ransom. I notified the authorities and they have a squad of police notebooks out looking now.

OMG, GANNON, YOU ARE CHANNELLING JASPER FFORDE. YOU'VE JUST WRITTEN A PARAGRAPH FOR THURSDAY NEXT.

[Fran]

@Maud/Gannon
You two make a great comedy duo .... you cheer up my Monday

[Gannon]

@Maud and Fran

Ditto. I love how we can all make each other laugh, and I can honestly say that you have both cheered me up on many occasions and turned a bad day into a better day. Laughter is the best medicine in the whole world. Although I can't work out why you are laughing about my book. It's a very serious police investigation. One of the police notebooks contacted me last night and said that they had some good leads on a second hand book shop. They think that there are some runaways residing in the shop and that my Jasper might be one of them. There is worry that there are some hardcore Stephen King horrors in there so the police have called in there "Hardcover" division.

[Fran]

@Maud and Fran

Ditto. I love how we can all make each other laugh, and I can honestly say that you have both cheered me up on many occasions and turned a bad day into a better day. Laughter is the best medicine in the whole world. Although I can't work out why you are laughing about my book. It's a very serious police investigation. One of the police notebooks contacted me last night and said that they had some good leads on a second hand book shop. They think that there are some runaways residing in the shop and that my Jasper might be one of them. There is worry that there are some hardcore Stephen King horrors in there so the police have called in there "Hardcover" division.

No doubt they will be going Undercover <trumpet blast>

[Maud Fitch]

<Psst, guys, I have a rescue plan for The Fourth Bear; we have to move fast because it's at risk of getting shredded>
<Word on the street is that one of the police notebooks has aspirations of becoming a journal>
<We'd better talk in code>

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<Okay, you both understand what we have to do?>

[primrose777]

That doesnt even make sense backwards