From Amazon:
The first installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England

Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it’s a bibliophile’s dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy—enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.

To the finder:
Welcome to bookcrossing! You have "caught" what we call a "travelling book." It is now your book to keep or to read and pass on to another reader and follow where the book goes. This is done by journal entries, so I really hope you'll journal it, if only to tell me you found it. You can do this anonymously, or sign up (free and private, no spam) and also be able to follow the book as it travels! If you do, please consider listing me, megami-no-ushi as your referring member.

My contribution to the "Everyone has a story" - literally! meeting. :) I really like what I've read so far of this series - so apt for bookcrossers!

To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!

Picked up at the November meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers at Cravings Market Restaurant.

Taken to the May meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers at Cravings Market Restaurant, to find a new reader.

Picked up at May 2015 Calgary meetup. I vaguely remember hearing the description of this book but I don't remember putting my name on it. Added to the pile!

It's hard to catch all the nuances so the audio book companion comes highly recommended. Other than that I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. The premise was interesting, the time and literary travel quite something to wrap my head around, and the characters - quite a lot of fun.

If you haven't read Jane Eyre before this book, don't bother. It's more fun reading this without knowing the Jane Eyre plot beforehand. ;)

Will be brought to the next Calgary Bookcrossing meetup and handed off.

Picked up this book at the Calgary BookCrossing August meet-up. I've heard of Jasper Fforde before but never read any of his stuff. This looks like a good one.

That was an enjoyable book. Very British in its humour, but I like that sort of thing. And the names in the book! Jack Schitt, Braxton Hicks; Fforde had some fun naming these characters. The world building was excellent, too. My only gripe with the book, which is very minor, is how all over the place it was. It starts with the theft of the manuscript, then we move on to Thursday trying to take down Hades, then we're in Swindon, where we get introduced to the Prose Portal, but we don't get into Jane Eyre until way later in the plot. There's even a random side trip into a time portal. I was expecting Thursday to enter the book world much sooner than she did. With that said, it didn't take away from my enjoyment of the book.

Oh, and yes, you don't have to have any prior knowledge of Jane Eyre to understand what's going on. Thursday gives a nice summary of its plot and the anti-climatic ending.

Passing this book on to the next reader at the Calgary BookCrossing September meet-up.

OK - I cam home with WAY too many books. But, my books are organized now by when I got them.

Well, I have read this and the next book makes more sense now. I enjoy Thursday Next and her companions. Hard to imagine the world operating this way but a fun read.

Taking this to the March meetup at Cravings Restaurant. Time for it to be passed on.

Picked up at get together

Really enjoyed this book! Loved the idea, and the characters - both good and bad, and the writing style. It was a bit different than I was expecting based on what people had told me of the series. Would also like to know a bit more about what happened with her brother. Also, pet Dodos!!!

Thanks for the thrilling read!

Taken to get together!

Picked up at the July Calgary meet up. So much fun and I think this meeting broke a record for the number of books in attendance (mostly due to one particular crosser bring back over 20 books them-self, you know who you are). Really great to see a few members that haven't attended in awhile, welcome back! We had 13 people attend and well over 100 books. This particular one has been added to my book shelf.

This one took me a long time to get into but then I was very happy I stuck it out. Too smart for me in many places....

Are you in the Calgary area and interested in meeting up with other Calgary BookCrossers? Please check out our facebook group, "BookCrossing Calgary" for details on how. Meeting are held on the second Saturday of every month starting at 11am. Location is unknown, please PM me for information. New Crossers are always welcome.

Taking to the Calgary June meeting.

Picked up at the monthly Book Crossing meeting at Cravings Market Restaurant.

I quite enjoyed this book. I was a little confused in the middle where they apparently jumped 31 years into the future and then never mentioned it again... so I think I missed something. But I would read the next ones cause I'm assuming that would clear everything up. I liked how they confused the reader about the ending of Jane Eyre. Overall, I recommend if you're looking for a fluffy easy read that appeals to the book lover in you.

Will be bringing this book to the monthly Book Crossing meeting at Cravings Market Restaurant.

To be read