The third and final entry in the Bridge-trilogy returns characters of the previous two novels to the titular bridge, where something civilisation-shatteringly enormous is supposed to happen.

There is a noticeable change in tone and style that I lack the vocabulary to properly adress, and there is also a kinda disappointing ending to the whole thing. Compared to the other two books the red thread leading through it feels arbitrary, with no-one of the cast having any real stakes in anything, and the way it ends feels lackluster.
What I assume to be the crowning moment glory happens in a little paragraph, the implications are never discussed and not even hinted at, and… yea, I am a bit disappointed with the whole thing.

A short story collection. A science-fiction short-story collection, to be exact.

A theme in most of them is the uploading of consciousness, in one way or another, which seldom goes well (or rather, the process mostly goes well, BUT), with the remaining ones dealing with other “less than great” technological what-ifs.

It’s a good collection, and if my summary doesn’t put you off completely go grab a copy.

This is the story about a rockstar wanting to marry a virtual Idol. More specifically, it’s the story of Chia, a member of the Lo/Rez-fanclub, and Colin, a data analyst with pattern recognition superpowers hired by the Lo/Rez security team, both (persons and groups) attempting to figure out what the hell is going on about those rumours.
The novel is a bit of a wild goose chase through Tokyo, with multiple other parties getting involved along the way.

I found it an enjoyable read, with maybe a bit of an anticlimatic ending (which, admittedly, still fits the story very well, it just felt a bit… “okay, and?”). Let’s see what Bridge III will bring, eventually.

I have no idea how to properly talk about this one.

It sure is a Jasper Fforde-book.
Okay. It is set in an alternative (and somewhat phantastical) Britain, and it follows the Literary Detective Thursday Next on her quest to secure both the Prose Portal, an invention that lets people enter books and other works of literature, and the original manuscript of Jane Eyre, which is in danger of being changed, and with it all subsequent prints, due to meddling by one Archeron Hades, the books antagonist. This sentence does not do any justice to what’s going on in this book.

One day I’d like to spend a day in Fforde’s brain, just to see how it looks in there, given the absolute phantastical stuff he puts to paper.