March Recommendations

For the month of March, Chance recommends the following four books:

Moving Pictures – Terry Pratchett

The first Sir Terry book I read, and I was instantly hooked on the wildly imaginative Discworld series. Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on the Disc (a flat planet on the back of four elephants on a giant sea turtle swimming through space) gets Holy Wood fever! Grab a bag of banged grains (aka popcorn) and curl up with high fantasy humor more action packed than the latest clickie (film) blockbuster!

Did you know? Sir Terry’s latest book, I Shall Wear Midnight, the fourth book in the Tiffany Aching series, came out in September. Learn more about Pratchett’s incredible Discworld series at his website.

Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde

Skip The Eyre Affair, Fforde’s uneven debut, and dive right into the second installment of the Thursday Next series. Fforde’s literary fantasy goes full-tilt here. The jokes fly faster than Great Expectations‘s Miss Havisham on a high-octane motorbike (although that’s in here too)! Fforde takes classic characters from Brit Lit and gives them a marvelous modern twist.

Did you know? The Thursday Next series currently has five books. Something Rotten is a personal favorite. The sixth volume in the series, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, hits U.S. shelves on March 8th. Learn more about Fforde’s fantastic series at his website.