This book comes as a donation to BookCrossing from a family member in the town of Alexandria, Virginia.

This book is being released during the monthly meeting of the local bookcrossers known as "BCinDC" . This book is released today in honor of the birthday of the late MaryZee. This book was left there on purpose for you to find. Read and enjoy!

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Picked up at the BC-in-DC meetup today! I look forward to reading it.

I enjoyed this latest installment in the Thursday Next series. I especially liked the interactions between Thursday and her previous incarnations, Thursday5 and Thursday1-4.

Bringing to the BC-in-DC meetup at Ballston Mall in Arlington, VA!

Between the wrapped books and the ones on the table at the meet-up, I managed to come home with more than a dozen books. What was I thinking?! I loved the first line of this book , especially the part about the dangerously high levels of stupidity surplus. The other person who loved the first line was Melydia. I have a copy of this book already on my TBR shelf, so I will pass this along to her. I think that I will mail it to her without warning, so that when she gets the package she can have that moment of dread from anticipating another copy of Cold Sassy Tree. (Surprise, Six has an evil side!)

"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control." -- Paul Auster

Hoping this fakes Melydia out, plus giving her another book to read! If only it were a copy of Cold Sassy Tree!

This arrived in the mail the other day. 6of8 picked it out of the wrap-it-up game at the January BCinDC meetup in Ballston but then discovered she had another copy on the TBR pile, so she sent it to me. Thanks!

Several years have passed since we last checked in with Thursday Next, and now she is the mother of three children, the eldest a despondent teen. SpecOps was disbanded and she swore off the book world, but still works as both a literary detective and for Jurisfiction in secret. Her latest assignment for the latter is training the latest recruit: herself. That is, herself as portrayed in the novels based on her life. Meanwhile, Pride and Prejudice is on the verge of being turned into a reality show, highly dangerous cheeses are being traded on the black market, and time travel may not actually have been invented after all. In short, it's the same sort of silliness we've come to expect from this series, though for some reason it felt kind of lacking compared to previous installments. I think not enough was resolved, with too many elements tossed in, presumably to be dealt with in future books. I don't need each book in a series to stand on its own, but several scenes felt like they should have been delayed until the book in which they are actually addressed. Of course, this all means I'll probably read the next book as soon as possible, just to find out how it all turns out. If it all turns out in the next book, anyway - the Minotaur's been hanging out, unresolved, for two books and over a decade in story years now, so my hopes for imminent and thorough resolution are not high.

Once again, BCinDC will have a table full of free books available at the 2014 Day of the Book festival in Kensington, Maryland. This book will be among them.

This book wasn't claimed at the Kensington Day of the Book Festival, so I'm re-releasing it at the Gaithersburg book festival for a new reader to find & enjoy!

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