Rachel Stuhler and
Melissa Blue, along with Cathy Yardley and Cecilia Tan, are the writers of Geek Actually. One of their
five top books celebrating geek culture, as shared at Tor.com:
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
We’d all say we’ve “escaped into” books, but what if we could really do it? Fforde’s Thursday Next is a bad-ass female literary detective working in Spec Ops. She owns an extinct dodo, her husband may or may not exist, and those pesky Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca keep causing headaches. She gives voice to our strange dystopian fears all while being the female near-superhero we always felt we deserved. And the best part of Fforde’s world-building is that Thursday’s geekdom is so intrinsically tied to her persona that it’s never a source of discussion—it just is, which is a powerful message for younger readers.
Read about
another entry on the list.
The Eyre Affair is among
Deborah Harkness’s five favorite otherworldly reads.
--Marshal Zeringue
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