Hello.

This 4th bear forum is now up, and is for posts that might contain spoilers. I'm working on updates to my websites which should all be up and running by July 8th. Happy posting and I hope you like the new book..

Jasper Fforde

Thanks! I am very excited to receive this latest book.

The link with appearances on the website was very usefulThe Mystery Bookstore in LA promises to send me a copy - hopefully autographed - as soon as possible. It is hard to wait until August 10th or so including mail time! .

JF - Thanks for making me laugh so hard and for writing so well that your words lured my non book reading husband away from basketball playoffs.

As Always,
Debra

just finished the book, and had fun reading excerpts to my (non-reader) husband, who laughed even harder than I ...

ya done good,
jo anne embleton
tyler, texas

I kept sharing pieces of the book with my 15 year old daughter. Now she is asking to read it too ...

Amy

By far I thought this was a fantastic book! I read the Eyre affair quite sometime ago and now I'm hooked on to what Jasper writes. It's amazing how he thinks of these things for his novels and now I'm trying to convince my friends to read it but they're so stubborn

Steph~

Thanks for another great Mystery.. I love the characters in the Fourth Bear.. Especially - Inspector Jack Spratt & Srgt. Mary-MAry.. Looking forward to the next book soon... KEep em coming.. Also-- Got a little girl hooked to your mysteries in the Jack Spratt and Mary-MAry series... She doesn't like reading books whatsoever. This little girl reads the Thursday Next Seriesin the while...

I have just finished the "Fourth Bear",whilst quaffing a pint of Conwy Aleor two whilst glancing across the river towards Glan Conwy and occasionally watching the world sail by.

What a great read !


I was quite jealous of Spratt's car until it became the ultimate wreck. I was also envious of him visiting Ed and Ursula's cottage.

Having often told the tale of Goldilocks to my boys and my grandchildren I felt as if I knew the place well.

I'm looking forward to a new book now.

"The Fourth Blind Mouse" is an option for a title or "Mary's Monster Menagerie".

Whatever, keep them coming

"Mary's Monster Menagerie"

Heh, I like that! Actually I believe the expected next title is "The Last Great Tortoise Race".

Hey, i dont know if Mr. Fforde (even though i call him Jasper to my friends) will ever read this, but maybe somebody else can help me...I visited him this summer at one of his book signings, and learned so much. I wrote about him in college essays, because as a high school senior, its that time of the year...endless applications and such...and i thought, hey, id like to know if somebody wrote about me in their college admissions essay! soo...my question is...where do i write to if i want to send him a letter?

I don't know about an actual physical address... I suppose you'd have to ask his Official Stalker about that. But if you click on 'panjandrum' somewhere at the top of this page, you might find an email address you can use...

Rob

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I just read the book, and thought it was amazing... nothing new there.
i havnt forummed for a while...im excited to here everyones thoughts on the new book!
just one question, maybe its my Northamericanness but iv never heard of the Punch's in a nursery rhyme...?
oh and one other thing... so with PDR's unless in there story/rhyme they dont die do they live forever in the world of Jack Spratt?

Welcome back!

Punch and Judy aren't from a nursery rhyme--they're stock characters from popular theatre of way back when. Basically, they were a husband and wife who insulted each other and beat each other up (actually, I think Mr. Punch mostly beat Judy) and I think killed the baby and maybe the dog. This was comedy, by the way.

Here is a historical account of a Punch and Judy puppetry show:

[www.punchandjudy.com]

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