Journal Entry 1 by bigcurlyloz from Fordham, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Friday, July 04, 2008

Duplicate copy.

"The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy. Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most important of all: How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?" - amazon.co.uk synopsis 

Journal Entry 2 by bigcurlyloz from Fordham, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 13, 2008

I may have enjoyed this even more than The Big Over Easy. Lots of twists and turns (and Nursery references", exploding cucumbers, the escape of The Gingerbreadman and Mary Mary settles in to the Unit more. Loved it. 

Journal Entry 3 by lwpallett on Thursday, January 08, 2009

Once again, Fforde triumphs with a mix of the traditionally familiar and the everyday bizarre to bring together intrigue in a land that is both here and not here. Really good fun to read, and now I want to get into the next one! (whenever it comes out...)

reserved for the plans of bigcurlyloz 

Journal Entry 4 by bigcurlyloz from Fordham, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 08, 2009

Planning on keeping this for a while longer.