Friday Outfit: Lost in a Good Book

Sunshine!  And lack of Star Wars props!  Are you sure it's Friday?  Well, considering I still have to go into work tomorrow, I can't say it feels like one.  But the calendar insists it is.

Red openwork sweater - Sparrow (via Anthropologie)

White camisole - H&M

Denim jeans - Gap

Black Jenna flats - Bass

I'd forgotten how itchy this sweater is.  Real wool is like that, but I usually wear it with a long sleeved shirt underneath it.  Clearly I did not make the same choice today, but that is because we actually got up around 70 degrees.  Looking at it from this vantage point, it seems like the sweater could benefit from a belt or some such.  I'll have to experiment with that.    It's an otherwise pretty standard outfit for me.  Maybe I should try to shake it up a bit next time I take this sweater out.  And wear something with more coverage underneath it, because I'll be honest- as soon as that photo was taken, I came back upstairs and took the thing off.

The book is one I just got in the mail today.  I love Jasper Fforde, in spite of his vocal hatred of fanfiction writers and going out of his way to insult them in his fifth Thursday Next book.  It was a totally non-classy move, but as a lover of books I can't help but love these stories.  I owned the first four at one point, but loaned The Eyre Affair to an old roommate who never returned it, and I gave Lost in a Good Book away since it was the only American edition I had and I wanted my set to match slightly more.  There are two sets of UK covers and I have books from both of them.  I was pleased to discover that the copy of Lost in a Good Book I'd ordered not only had the simpler cover whose design I prefer, but it's also autographed!

Way cool.  Though, if I ever meet the man, I will be tempted to tell him to be a little less hard on people who are inspired to write by his books when his own work relies so completely on the writing of others.  That their work happens to be in the public domain doesn't make him a better writer.

I mean, he's a better writer because he is a brilliant author.  But I do find his proprietary feelings baffling when his fourth book stars Hamlet.  You know, Shakespeare's Hamlet. 

As I said, however, I love his writing.  All of it.  I have read everything he's written and it's made of awesome, so I will continue to read.  If you love literature and haven't read any of Fforde's work... what are you waiting for?  Go find yourself a copy of The Eyre Affair and start reading!