The Bartimaeus Trilogy -- online

Do you like fantasy? First-person narratives? Footnotes?

Even if you think you don’t, you’ll enjoy Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy.

See the trilogy’s website, where you can find the blog of the djinni Bart, e.g.,

The Bartimaeus Journal

“As part of my current charge I have been instructed to provide an occasional journal of my recent activities*. Since my most trivial thoughts are suffused with rare insight and the ringing clarity of true wisdom, this is a good deal for you. So here we go, then. Listen and be enlightened.

(*I avoid the term blog, since coincidentally this word is also the name of a repulsive sub-caste of foliots, characterised by ooze, fleshy folds and gills of blue-grey gristle. Think slugs, but with worse personalities. Magicians send them to harass their enemies in their sleep; after a night of tormented dreams, the sleeper wakes to find his bed-clothes crossed with trails of slime… Where was I? Oh, yes – this being the case, I’ll stick with journal if you don’t mind.)”

We have all the books in the library — a fourth one (a prequel) is due out in November 2010.