Book Club Discussion Questions
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Introduction to Lost in a Good
Book
Thursday's hopes for a quiet life with her new husband, Landen, are dashed
when a seemingly impossible string of coincidences involving a falling car, a
disgruntled Neanderthal, and a mysterious young woman leads to some extremely
close brushes with death. Her jumpy ChronoGuard father rescues her just in time,
only to reveal to her that the world is destined to become one big, pink blob of
Dream Topping in a matter of days unless they can figure out how and why it
happens. And just when Thursday discovers that she is pregnant with Landen's
child, the Goliath goons eradicate Landen from existence, threatening to make it
permanent unless Thursday retrieves her nemesis Jack Schitt from his
imprisonment in a copy of
"The Raven"—this time without the
help of her now retired uncle Mycroft's mad machinery. Thursday's loved ones are
disappearing, while her list of enemies appears to be growing steadily.
Luckily, Thursday's fictional colleagues in an internal book-policing squad
called Jurisfiction have eagerly anticipated her return to the book world,
assigning her to apprentice under the tutelage of one of their greatest agents,
the abrasive Miss Havisham of
Great Expectations. Thursday discovers that
the sudden materialization of Shakespeare's long-lost play Cardenio, which she
had been investigating for SpecOps 27, was indeed too good to be true—it has
evidently been stolen from the Great Library by a rogue character from the book
world. With Miss Havisham and Jurisfiction's help, Thursday must find the
perpetrator and return Cardenio to its proper home in the Well of Lost
Plots—the home of all unpublished works—before the thief can gain all the
power and money that goes with its release in the real world.
Reading Guide
- Thursday's grandmother says she cannot die until she has read the ten most
boring classics ever written. What do you think those are?
- What sort of impact would the discovery of a long-lost play by Shakespeare
make in Thursday's book-loving world? What kind of impact would it make in
our world? What kind of discovery would make an equivalent impact in our
world, if not the discovery of a Shakespearean play?
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- How does the author develop themes of identity and belonging throughout the narrative?
- What role does the setting play in shaping the characters' decisions and relationships?
- Discuss how the ending reframes the events of the story. Were you surprised?
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