This is “my favorite book series” week. Armistead Maupin returns to familiar ground with Michael Tolliver Lives (2007), catching up with the characters from his Tales of the City series. The differences here are that while Tales centered around Mary Ann Singleton — starting with her arrival in San Francisco and ending with her departure [...]
7 August 2007
Book Review: First Among Sequels
Thursday Next, the heroine of my favorite series of books by Welsh author Jasper Fforde is back in First Among Sequels (2007), the fifth in the series. The story picks up 14 years after the end of Something’s Rotten and Spec-Op’s has been shut down by the bureaucracy so Thursday and her colleagues run it [...]
