CANCELED: Discuss The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde

Unfortunately, we're going to have to postpone our Tuesday, April 15, discussion of "The Eyre Affair," by Jasper Fforde until the restaurants are open and we can all leave our houses for nonessential activities.

Fans of Douglas Adams and P.G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it’s a bibliophile’s dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, where a long-running stage production of Richard III featuring exuberant audience participation (think Rocky Horror) is the hottest ticket in town, and where forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Wickedly funny.

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect. If you can't make it at the last minute, that's OK; just let us know by changing your RSVP on the site.

I try to arrive early but can't always. If you arrive first, please choose a spot and pull some tables together, depending on how many RSVPs we have.

(Alexandria Book Circle does not charge for membership or attendance. But with Meetup's recent rate increase -- now $15 a month -- it is necessary to put a collection box on the table at our discussions, for any small and completely voluntary contribution you'd like to make, to help defray the cost. Even the change you get back from buying your meal is appreciated.)

Hope to see you there!