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Nadine Larter's Reviews > The Night Circus
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
by Erin Morgenstern
Nadine Larter's review
bookshelves: my-must-reads
Feb 11, 12
bookshelves: my-must-reads
Read from January 18 to February 11, 2012
An exquisitely written book that takes you into a world that you cannot help but wish was real. Not since Harry Potter has a novel so fully taken my breath away and woken such a longing for magic in me. I couldn't help but savour every word, every poetic scene, every special detail. It is books like these that make me wonder why I bother writing at all. Never will I be able to enchant like this. It is one of those books that will continue to resonate with you long after you have put it down...
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Reading Progress
| 01/18/2012 | page 17 |
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4.0% | 2 comments |
| 01/25/2012 | page 62 |
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16.0% | "Loving this book. Might need to take the day off tomorrow to finish it... Might as well since I get nothing done anyway..." |
| 01/28/2012 | page 114 |
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29.0% | "So much of awesome.... Can see i won't be getting any life done today..." |
| 01/31/2012 | page 180 |
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47.0% | "Kind of want to absorb this story with my soul..." |
| 02/07/2012 | page 243 |
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63.0% | "I think this might be my new favourite book..." |
| 02/07/2012 | page 266 |
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69.0% | "Such gentle and delicate writing. My heart is bleeding..." |
| 02/07/2012 | page 309 |
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80.0% | "Reading not helping with the temporary headache issues but this book is worth it..." 2 comments |
| 02/08/2012 | page 334 |
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86.0% | "Reading hurting my head again today, which is very much cramping my happy place. Also this whole only-fifty-pages-left thing is stressing me out." 2 comments |
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Feb 11, 2012 07:10am
Hearing lotsa good things about this. Looks like I gotta check this out. ;)
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Nicole wrote: "I also loved this book. Serious book hangover after I finished it."I finished it six months ago and I still have that hangover... *sigh*
This will stay one of my all time favorites. Dreaming of awe-inspiring circuses and mysterious midnight dinners. Started playing the online card game last night, stayed up way too late.
Nicole wrote: "This will stay one of my all time favorites. Dreaming of awe-inspiring circuses and mysterious midnight dinners. Started playing the online card game last night, stayed up way too late."
Oh no don't tell me about things like that!!! Hehe!! I have always been a fan of circus stories and it has always been that dark and seedy side that has drawn me (Carnivale -the series, Geek Love, the circus scenes in South of Somewhere)but this one was just so exquisite I didn't even miss the dark and seedy at all :)
Hi my name is Nicole and I am a Rêveur and I visit the circus everynight. There was still that extra something about this circus and I think that is what made the book so irresistable. There was a little bit of sinister, the man in the grey suit for example was something sinister.
The Illusionist is wearing a long dark cloak tonight, over a snow-pale dress. She raises her arms, palms turned up, and as she does so, her cloak stirs and twists, and once again, it shivers into birds. Dozens. Hundreds! They rush in a midnight torrent round the tent. You feel their passage like a restless wind. There are shapes in the stream of them: knives, flames, gestures, trees with tangled roots. For a moment you think you glimpse a sardonic, arrogant face in their boiling: nothing like the Illusionist at all. Finally she calls them back with the motion of a finger. They sink around her like water draining into sand, and once again she stands dark-cloaked and calm. After the performance, you buy a small souvenir from the stall outside.
