A to Z April: E Reviews - Emily's Reasons Why Not by Carrie Gerlach/The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Today I have another Chick Lit book to share, as well as a book that is really hard to describe quite what it is, except for that I love the series.  Once again I'm going to share the synopsis from Goodreads along with a few sentences about why I like it.

First is Emily's Reasons Why Not which is another fun romantic story based on a single woman about to turn 30.  She still hasn't found the right guy and is feeling the crunch at her age.  Again this came in a time when I was early 30s and it just kind of resonated with how I felt at the time.  Here's the blurb from Goodreads:
Hollywood publicity pro extraordinaire Emily Sanders is hitting thirty –– hard –– and she wants the life her best friends seem to have: house, kids, perfect man. But finding true love isn't easy in L.A., where image is everything, and where every beauty pageant winner is an eight in a sea of nines, who all wish they were Julia Roberts.

For Emily, boyfriend material has always come in many strange shapes and incarnations –– beautiful young surfer god, aging music executive, boss's boss's boss, and a baseball player with two cell phones (one of which she does not have the number to).

With her confidence rapidly heading due south (like everything else on her body), it's time to find a smart, sharp–eyed psychotherapist to help her get past her surefire method for choosing the absolute worst man. With a little help, maybe Emily can learn to narrow her focus from looking for Mister Right to looking out for Mister Wrong. Because she knows that, eventually, "the one" comes for every woman ... even for a disarming, unflappable player in the mad, mad world of entertainment, with the edge of an insider and the heart of a dreamer.

I guess you might call The Eyre Affair a fantasy type of story.  It is set in a world where the books are something that people can go into, and characters can come out of.  As the title might have you guess, there is something going on in the book Jane Eyre.  And the main character works for the department of police that has to fix these types of things.  I'd never read Jane Eyre before this, so then I had to read it.  And I think this is probably what led me into trying to read more classics.  For awhile I would read a classic every 10 books. Here's the blurb from Goodreads:
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
And something really cool, I got to meet the author a few years ago when he came to one of the public libraries in Kansas City.  Here I am with him!

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Waiting On Wednesday - One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases that we are eagerly awaiting.

My choice this week is one I'm very excited about! I love the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. I was looking at our SOS (Strict on Sale) list in the computer at the bookstore I work at this last Saturday night and was pleasantly surprised to see this book pop up! This is the 6th in the series, but I'm a little concerned that I haven't read the 5th. I don't have a copy of it, but I have it marked as read on Goodreads. So, it's possible that it came out in hardcover, and I just checked it out from the store, and was waiting for it to be in paperback, since I own all the others in paperback.

This is a neat series about detectives who go into books and solve mysteries. In fact, I read Jane Eyre for the first time because of this book. I don't quite know exactly how to explain this strange world, but you can read about it at the author's website: http://www.jasperfforde.com/. In this 6th book there is about to be a genre war, and it is Thursday's job to try to prevent it. Thursday is our main character, she was once a detective for Jurisfiction. She also has written about her adventures, and now her written Thursday is asked to solve a mystery within a book. I think it will be neat to get into fan-fiction within this story. But, in order to prepare, I'd better find book 5 and make sure I've read it.