Lost in a Good Book
14 journalers for this copy...
Thursday has become a controversial celebrity after her work on Jane Eyre. Her work life gets complicated when a lost Shakespeare play turns up in Reading - and even more complicated when she is apprenticed to Miss Havisham in Jurisfiction. Her personal life gets complicated when a drowning thirty-eight years ago erases her husband. Her family life gets complicated when erratic, but wise, Granny Next shows up.
The plot? That's also pretty complicated... in a good way.
It also seems that Hades is out to get her - but she knows she killed Acheron. So, who has the power and the motivation to get revenge?
We're starting a bookray for this, as part of The Lost Book project. If you haven't read The Eyre Affair you might want to join that bookray first.
The Lost Book is an animated web series which you can help write. It follows the adventures of investigative journalist, and BookCrosser, Aileen Adler and her dog Watson as they try to solve the crime of a stolen book. It's part of The Lost World Read 2009 reading campaign.
(Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World gets a mention as a book that Jurisfiction agent Harris Tweed tries to use as a way into detective fiction, via Sherlock Holmes. Apparently, "The Last booksplorer who went into The Lost World was shot by Lord Roxton"!)
As well as inviting you to help write the web series, we have a creative writing competition to create the stolen book. Jasper Fforde is our special guest writer. He has set the scene with two intriguing newspaper articles about the book - the journal of a 2004 expedition to Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. We're inviting 100-word entries each week and will gradually reconstruct the missing book from these microstories.
Bookray
darkhorse4460, UK (Int)
katrinat, UK (Europe)
katacs, Hungary (EU)
KiwiinEngland, UK/Ireland (Europe/Asia/Australisia)
Hayes13, Italy (Int)
4thEstate, USA (USA preferred, Int if needed)
leoluvr, USA (USA)
UnwrittenLibra, USA (Int assumed)
NMReader, USA (USA)
sunfi, USA (USA/Canada preferred, Int if needed)
Rrrcaron, USA (USA)
Bookray complete!
If you liked this, we also have a bookray for the third book in the series, The Well of Lost Plots - PM to join.
Released 14 yrs ago (5/19/2009 UTC) at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Travelling to darkhorse4460 in Oxford to start the bookray. Happy reading, everyone!
Thank you for sharing.
This is fairly lightweight stuff, despite involving quite a few grisly deaths and an imminent apocalypse. Humour rules, but occasionally something makes you sit up and think. How would we treat cloned versions of extinct species? Would we treat another human species (Neanderthals) as an underclass of low paid skivvies?
Anyway it probably won't be long before I get into 'The Well of Lost Plots' as quite a lot is left unresolved.
I shall be contacting the next person in the bookray very shortly. This book is already looking a bit battered. I hope it survives its long journey.
Released 14 yrs ago (6/17/2009 UTC) at To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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On its way to Katrinat. Happy Reading!
26.08.09: Update Katacs is moving, not just house but country this week, I'm holding the book for the week till she has moved rather than sending to her present address and chancing missing her in the process.
18/10: I enjoyed this book very much, it is exactly as interesting, original and entertaining as the first one. I'm looking forward to read the third book.
Released 14 yrs ago (10/21/2009 UTC) at a bookray, to the next reader -- Controlled Releases
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On its way to Ireland.
Thanks for sending it on katacs and thanks to TheLostBook for starting the ray.
I liked the quasi science that was put in, and getting my mind around the time travel.
Looking forward to getting the third book in the series and am hoping it doesn't take as long to appear as this one.
Released 14 yrs ago (11/14/2009 UTC) at Manchester, Greater Manchester United Kingdom
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This book is off to the next person on the ray. I hope they enjoy it as much as I did.
Released 14 yrs ago (12/9/2009 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, New Jersey USA
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Finishing up now, but won't be able to mail until after the long weekend. Just in time for the Christmas rush!!
Off to the post office in a little while. Better than the first. The reading tips for non brits helped a lot.
EDIT to add: Life got in the way... finally got this into the mail today, Dec 15. Sorry for the delay.
I hope it gets there before Christmas!
Happy Holidays everyone!
Book's ready to head on; I just need the contact info for the next person in line.
Released 14 yrs ago (1/15/2010 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, New Jersey USA
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Got it off in the mail during my lunch break. Since the next person asked to be skipped, it's now on its way out to leoluvr in Arizona.
Released 14 yrs ago (2/16/2010 UTC) at Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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I loved this book! Can't wait to get the next in the series.
Off to NMReader in Virginia as soon as I can.
I haven't started the book yet but I am hoping to start it on or before Monday. Once I start I don't foresee it taking long to read
June 2: I planned to take this on my trip for Memorial Day but I left on the bedside table. I will try and read this and get it moving quickly
June 16: I am havin a hard time getting into this book. I accidently left this at my sister's Monday night. I will get it from her over the weekend.
I believe this is my favorite quote from the book
"And then, in a revelatory moment, the clouds slid back from my mind and a crystal-clear understanding of the very nature of books shone upon me. They weren't just collections of words arranged neatly on a page to give the impression of reality - each of these volumes WAS reality."
I mailed this on Thursday. Delivery Confirmation Number: 0309 3220 0001 8479 0682
Update: 20 Aug 10 - I've tried to get into this one but I just can't so its time to pass it on. I've contacted the next in line for their address and I'll mail it as soon as I receive it, I'll make release notes at that time. Thanks again for including me.
Can hardly wait to get my hands on the next book. I want Thursday to get her husband back and to get her baby and to kick the bad corporation in the butt.
I'm looking for new readers for this book and the whole series, actually. Should y'all know someone interested, please tell them to PM me. Thanks and have a great August!
EDIT August 13, 2011: Bookray continues to the following destinations.
1. madpocky, The Philippines
2. bookguide, The Netherlands
Released 12 yrs ago (8/8/2011 UTC) at Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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