"Friday may have tricked his parents, the SHE and half the ChronoGuard, but there's one person no teenage boy ever managed to fool." "And that is?" "… - Jasper Fforde

"We're fine, Joff. You?"
"Not that good, Thurs. The Church of the Global Standard Deity has undergone a split."
"No!" I said with his much surprise and concern in my voice as I could muster.
"I'm afraid so. The new Global Standard Clockwise Deity have broken away due to unresolvable differences over the direction in which the collection plate is passed round."
"Another split? That's the third this week!"
"Fourth," replied Joffy dourly, "and it's only Tuesday. The Standardized pro-Baptist conjoined Methodarian-Lutherian sisters of something-or-other split into two subgroups yesterday. Soon," he added grimly, "there won't be enough ministers to man the splits."

The first four in the series had been less a lighthearted chronicling of my adventures and more of a “Dirty Harry meets Fanny Hill,” but with a good deal more sex and violence.

Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic.