Look Who's Back
Timur Vermes
4/5
MacLehose Press 05/04/2015 Kindle
Bookclub
After the worst book in the world, The Man in the High Castle, we took a risk by choosing another WWII alternate timeline/ alternate history book. The premise of the story is that Hitler wakes up in a field in 2011 as if he went to sleep there just before his death. He believes absolutely that he is still in the same political position that he was in before and has to come to terms with the modern world.
What was interesting is the reaction people have to his speeches in the modern day is often laughter, they believe he is an actor and a comedian.
I really enjoyed the ridiculousness of the character and as this was a bookclub book, we had some brilliant discussions about it. one question we had was how did we feel reading it in public. readers had experiences of people giving them dirty looks, quoting buddah to them as they got off the tube, moving seats etc. Also looking at the similarities with the public reaction to the character and the trump campaign.
A brilliant easy read, well translated, with several thought provoking points while being very very funny. Apparently if you also know some german, there's some good playing on words that goes on as well.
Queen of Shadows
Sarah J Maas
4/5
Bloomsbury 01/09/2015 Paperback
Christmas Haul
Ah Sarah J Maas, how you have trapped me. I started reading these books while I worked at Bloomsbury and now, five years on I am still reading them. I was a little lost because I have long gaps between reading the books, and because they are teen fiction, I find them an easy read and then forget about them, rather than being a high level fan. And yet I am hooked. It took some time to try and remember all the people and their connections and betrayals, particularly in this book (presumably the last in the series,) as so much had happened.
The writing is clear and the story and fantasy world is well thought out and doesn't have that rushed unfinished feeling that some teen books have. She's been allowed to spread out her epic story and I think that's worked well.
I enjoyed getting back into fantasy for a while and the story was, as ever, very good.
The Box of Delights
John Masefield
2/5
Egmont 10/03/2014 Paperback
Christmas Haul
This book was recommended to me by the wise people of online bloggers. I was writing a piece last year about books to read at Christmas time and this was often top of the list or at least present. It's biggest attraction is the illustration by Quentin Blake. Now, although no where near the Genius of Roald Dhal, there was a certain charm to this book, which was evocative of his works, so I completely understand why Quentin Blake was also there.
Sadly I could not finish this book.
The box of delights is intended for younger readers, however, the story is so fantastical that it is hard to follow at times. It is written more as a screen play with descriptions of things happening being so detailed that we get little or no characterisation or clarity of story. It all seems a bit mad and I could not suspend my disbelief enough to follow it.
Other children's books are able to describe amazing events without losing the reader and I think this was the greatest failing of this book. As a children's book you could easily read the whole thing, the language is lovely and its full of interesting little phrases that tickle your imagination. But it doesn't go anywhere. I think this would be a good book to read as a bedtime story TO children. They would remember little of the story as they drifted off and it wouldn't matter because there isn't much to miss.
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Saturday, 1 October 2016
Full Reading Record
Recently I took a look at my side bar and realised that my Reading Record was getting a little chunky. I've decided to keep the record here and will add it to BLOG EXTRA to keep as an archive and trim off that list to just include the most recent year.
2014
May - American Psycho, The Bone Season, Gone Girl
June - Popular: A Memoir, The Land Where Lemons Grow, Throne of Glass, Macbeth, Don't Tell The Boss
July - Dead Ends, What Was Promised, How to be a Woman, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Eat My Heart Out, Patient
August -We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, The Shock of The Fall
September - After Me Comes The Flood
October - Heir of Fire, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein
November - Her
December - Three Men In A Boat, There Will Be Lies
2015
January - The Minaturist, How To Win Friends And Influence People
February - An Echo In The Bone, Maggot Moon, The Secret Garden
March - Written In My Own Heart's Blood, Smoke and Mirrors, Rasputin's Daughter
April - The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year
May - Pride and Prejudice, Trigger Warning
June - The Architect's Apprentice, Birds Without Wings
July - Chickenhawk
August - The Moor's Account
September -The Life I Left Behind, Burnt Paper Sky, Chimes
October - Orlando, Vathek
November - The Bone Clocks
December - Sense and Sensibility, The Mistress Contract, The Poet's Wives
(24)
2016
January - Sea of Poppies, Umbrella
February - Lila, Emma
March - Shantaram
April - The Help, Americanah
May - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
June - The Old Mann & The Sea, Queenie, The Signature of All Things, The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society
July - The Moth, Binge, The Widow, Armada
August - The Man in The High Castle, Eat Pray Love, Leaving Atocha Station
September - Look Who's Back, Queen of Shadows
October - The Box of Delights
November - Blackass
December - Love Letters to the Dead
(25)
2017
January - Captain Corelli's Manolin, Othello, Playing with the Grown-ups
February - Half of a Yellow Sun,
2014
May - American Psycho, The Bone Season, Gone Girl
June - Popular: A Memoir, The Land Where Lemons Grow, Throne of Glass, Macbeth, Don't Tell The Boss
July - Dead Ends, What Was Promised, How to be a Woman, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Eat My Heart Out, Patient
August -We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, The Shock of The Fall
September - After Me Comes The Flood
October - Heir of Fire, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein
November - Her
December - Three Men In A Boat, There Will Be Lies
2015
January - The Minaturist, How To Win Friends And Influence People
February - An Echo In The Bone, Maggot Moon, The Secret Garden
March - Written In My Own Heart's Blood, Smoke and Mirrors, Rasputin's Daughter
April - The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year
May - Pride and Prejudice, Trigger Warning
June - The Architect's Apprentice, Birds Without Wings
July - Chickenhawk
August - The Moor's Account
September -The Life I Left Behind, Burnt Paper Sky, Chimes
October - Orlando, Vathek
November - The Bone Clocks
December - Sense and Sensibility, The Mistress Contract, The Poet's Wives
(24)
2016
January - Sea of Poppies, Umbrella
February - Lila, Emma
March - Shantaram
April - The Help, Americanah
May - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
June - The Old Mann & The Sea, Queenie, The Signature of All Things, The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society
July - The Moth, Binge, The Widow, Armada
August - The Man in The High Castle, Eat Pray Love, Leaving Atocha Station
September - Look Who's Back, Queen of Shadows
October - The Box of Delights
November - Blackass
December - Love Letters to the Dead
(25)
2017
January - Captain Corelli's Manolin, Othello, Playing with the Grown-ups
February - Half of a Yellow Sun,
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Back to School
There must be a huge amount of books which take place at a school where the school is the central focus. Interestingly, I struggled to think of them. Here are all the books I can think of where school was a big part of the story! For this reason several on the list take place at boarding schools.
Malory Towers - Enid Byton
The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
Star Girl - Jerry Spinelli
The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy
Matilda - Roald Dhal
The Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wonder - RJ Palacio
Malory Towers - Enid Byton
The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
Star Girl - Jerry Spinelli
The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy
Matilda - Roald Dhal
The Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wonder - RJ Palacio
What other books remind you of school/take place at school?
Thursday, 15 September 2016
Thank You
I have often wondered where my love of reading and books comes from. My family all have very different reading habits, although everyone reads in some capacity and I'm sure my parents encouraged me to read, and there were always books around the house.
I also distinctly remember learning to read and the thrill I had progressing through different levels of reading books (colour coded and gradually more difficult I loved going up a level). I then got to thinking about the teachers along the way that have influenced or encouraged my love of reading.
This is going to be a big thank you post to all of those people. I'm going to start with my parents for sure, I know my mother bought thicker and bigger books to try and keep me busy, and I used to devour every book she brought home for me. I am so lucky that she encouraged me to spend my time reading, and now, as books and reading and writing have become such a huge part of my life and career, I appreciate it all the more. My dad definitely expanded my reading, recommending books that I would never usually pick up. And as I have learnt more recently is exceedingly well read.
My sister also deserves recognition here. It seems that since my infancy she has envisioned me as a writer and jumped on any example that I am taking a step in that direction as a positive and exciting process. She has been a key part in making sure that the dreams I had as a small child remain my focus today. I'm forever grateful for her continued advice, support and wisdom.
Okay, so lets get on to the actual teachers. It's September and kids are going back to school, some of the teachers they will meet will be huge influences in their lives and perhaps 20 years from now, some of those students will be writing their own blog posts on the subject. I won't name names for the sake of privacy/I can't hunt them all down to ask for permission, but hopefully if you read this, you know who you are.
I've already mentioned learning to read. In my kindergarten classroom, the energy and joy that my teacher put into my reading progress definitely made me work hard to learn. Without this first rung of the ladder, who knows what I would have gone on to do.
Next, the librarian that came in early before lessons started to open up the library. I was dropped off early at school and would curl up on some cushions and she suggested books for me. This is how I read the Laura Ingalls Wilder series. It was the first time someone was impressed by my reading, I was proud to be reading books that the 7th graders were reading! I was reading way above my level and not even trying. I remember very little about her, but the time spent in that library (which actually was in one of those portacabin classrooms) is something I won't forget in a hurry.
I had a strange English teacher in my first year of high school. Apparently on the last day of term he would play the guitar for you and was particularly famous for this, although I never saw him play. It was the first study of poetry I had ever done in a classroom and I loved it! At this particular school they obsessed over the fact that I didn't do the homework and predicted very poor results in all of my subjects I was punished mercilessly for not doing homework. BUT I never skipped a lesson, it didn't even occur to me to bunk off. I still went to the lessons and learnt everything. Imagine their surprise when my English exam came in the top percentile for Literature and top of the year for English Language. I did well in every other subject. My mythical guitar playing teacher was forced to award me a detention after I failed to complete some homework. My essay subject: The Importance of Homework. After he read it, with me standing silently in front of him, he said I would make a good teacher, and that I obviously understand and respect the need for work outside of the classroom. Why hadn't I done the assignment? I think I replied something to the effect that I was reading. I remember his smile, I think he may have been the only teacher that understood me there.
After moving to a much more effective school for me, I met the most brilliant set of teachers in all subjects. But in particular I was luck enough to have the two best of department, one at GCSEs and the other at A level. Both deserve a multi layered thank you, for introducing me to some of my favourite authors and subjects. They also both received a dedication in my dissertation at University for giving me my love of Literature.
Lastly, my tutors at Uni. Some of the most well read and impressive people I have ever met, I am glad to still be in contact with some of them. I respect them even more now that I know them as friends and have a much more rounded view of them, their tastes and their interests. A fabulous bunch. I was so lucky to be assigned my dissertation tutor, he was hired in the gap between my applying and getting assigned someone and luckily he was PERFECT. I absolutely struck gold, his office was filled with resources that almost seemed tailored to me and he was friends with the man who wrote the most recent biography of one of the authors I was focused on. BONUS.
That's the lot. I hope that the teachers and tutors and friends that those in education meet this year will be as important and interesting as mine have been.
Happy new school year everyone!
I also distinctly remember learning to read and the thrill I had progressing through different levels of reading books (colour coded and gradually more difficult I loved going up a level). I then got to thinking about the teachers along the way that have influenced or encouraged my love of reading.
This is going to be a big thank you post to all of those people. I'm going to start with my parents for sure, I know my mother bought thicker and bigger books to try and keep me busy, and I used to devour every book she brought home for me. I am so lucky that she encouraged me to spend my time reading, and now, as books and reading and writing have become such a huge part of my life and career, I appreciate it all the more. My dad definitely expanded my reading, recommending books that I would never usually pick up. And as I have learnt more recently is exceedingly well read.
My sister also deserves recognition here. It seems that since my infancy she has envisioned me as a writer and jumped on any example that I am taking a step in that direction as a positive and exciting process. She has been a key part in making sure that the dreams I had as a small child remain my focus today. I'm forever grateful for her continued advice, support and wisdom.
Okay, so lets get on to the actual teachers. It's September and kids are going back to school, some of the teachers they will meet will be huge influences in their lives and perhaps 20 years from now, some of those students will be writing their own blog posts on the subject. I won't name names for the sake of privacy/I can't hunt them all down to ask for permission, but hopefully if you read this, you know who you are.
I've already mentioned learning to read. In my kindergarten classroom, the energy and joy that my teacher put into my reading progress definitely made me work hard to learn. Without this first rung of the ladder, who knows what I would have gone on to do.
Next, the librarian that came in early before lessons started to open up the library. I was dropped off early at school and would curl up on some cushions and she suggested books for me. This is how I read the Laura Ingalls Wilder series. It was the first time someone was impressed by my reading, I was proud to be reading books that the 7th graders were reading! I was reading way above my level and not even trying. I remember very little about her, but the time spent in that library (which actually was in one of those portacabin classrooms) is something I won't forget in a hurry.
I had a strange English teacher in my first year of high school. Apparently on the last day of term he would play the guitar for you and was particularly famous for this, although I never saw him play. It was the first study of poetry I had ever done in a classroom and I loved it! At this particular school they obsessed over the fact that I didn't do the homework and predicted very poor results in all of my subjects I was punished mercilessly for not doing homework. BUT I never skipped a lesson, it didn't even occur to me to bunk off. I still went to the lessons and learnt everything. Imagine their surprise when my English exam came in the top percentile for Literature and top of the year for English Language. I did well in every other subject. My mythical guitar playing teacher was forced to award me a detention after I failed to complete some homework. My essay subject: The Importance of Homework. After he read it, with me standing silently in front of him, he said I would make a good teacher, and that I obviously understand and respect the need for work outside of the classroom. Why hadn't I done the assignment? I think I replied something to the effect that I was reading. I remember his smile, I think he may have been the only teacher that understood me there.
After moving to a much more effective school for me, I met the most brilliant set of teachers in all subjects. But in particular I was luck enough to have the two best of department, one at GCSEs and the other at A level. Both deserve a multi layered thank you, for introducing me to some of my favourite authors and subjects. They also both received a dedication in my dissertation at University for giving me my love of Literature.
Lastly, my tutors at Uni. Some of the most well read and impressive people I have ever met, I am glad to still be in contact with some of them. I respect them even more now that I know them as friends and have a much more rounded view of them, their tastes and their interests. A fabulous bunch. I was so lucky to be assigned my dissertation tutor, he was hired in the gap between my applying and getting assigned someone and luckily he was PERFECT. I absolutely struck gold, his office was filled with resources that almost seemed tailored to me and he was friends with the man who wrote the most recent biography of one of the authors I was focused on. BONUS.
That's the lot. I hope that the teachers and tutors and friends that those in education meet this year will be as important and interesting as mine have been.
Happy new school year everyone!
Tell me stories of your favourite teachers/inspiring people
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Man Booker ShortList
If you'd like to see my wishlist for this year take a look here.
I was hoping that Serious Sweet, The School Days of Jesus and Work Like Any Other would make it but sadly they did not. The top three are now in my TBR list and I am particularly interested in David Szalay's. Here is the Man Booker Shortlist for 2016.
Congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors and good luck in the next stage!
I was hoping that Serious Sweet, The School Days of Jesus and Work Like Any Other would make it but sadly they did not. The top three are now in my TBR list and I am particularly interested in David Szalay's. Here is the Man Booker Shortlist for 2016.
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeline Thien
His Bloody Project
Graeme Macrae Burnet
All That Man Is
David Szalay
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
Hot Milk
Deborah Levy
Thursday, 8 September 2016
August Reviews
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
1/5
Penguin 01/01/1962 Kindle
Bookclub
To quote the rest of the bookclub: "The Man In The High Castle can take a flying leap". Worst book ever was also bandied about. It was a total disaster of a book. I am amazed that Philip K Dick is described as an unsung genius of his time in the introduction. Nope. Let's actually get into the reasons I would not recommend this book.
It's an alternative history, what if Hitler had won the war? Great idea, and very interesting, interesting enough to be adopted by the TV series. The book is short, which earns it it's single star, but it was difficult to read and difficult to follow in terms of writing style and story arch. Even Dick himself admitted to the unsatisfying ending that he wrote and spent the rest of his life trying to write a closing chapter that would explain. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful. This is the Edwin Drood of SciFi except that he actually handed in this unfinished piece of fiction to publishers who, schmucks that they are bowed and went on to publish it.
In cases like these I can only imagine that the editor couldn't get through it themselves. I spent much of the book feeling lost and not knowing whose side I was meant to be on. I know it's all shades of gray, but things needed to be clearer I was lost. I don't know what the significance was of any of the characters. Apparently everyone was connected, but I was so confused the whole time.
Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
5/5
Bloomsbury 16/11/2009 Kindle
Selfhelp
I am sorry to say that all of the negatives that people feel about this book, the trope of a sad woman going off to find herself, the exploitation of secular spiritualism, the cookie cutter love story. I have to say, they're all wrong.
My personal approach to this story was probably like most of the depressed women who reach out for a tiny piece of inspiration. I am incredibly sad, and I still am, the book didn't save me, it didn't save my life, but much of the thought processes appealed to me. Liz Gilbert is not saccharine, she's incredibly down to earth and empathetic. I was worried that that namaste approach was going to make me hate it but I didn't, and that's because she struggles with her life as much as I do. She get's distracted and is incredibly human.
The story is set out very beautifully and the love story is beautiful, real and touching. I say real because it's not perfect, just like every love story there's some potholes. The only struggle is that I inevitably was reading with a Julia Roberts voice over, which isn't the worst thing in the world... but it is a bit distracting.
I will admit that I think I read this at a very appropriate time for me. But nevertheless it is a well written and interesting exploration of food, language, relationships, freedom, travel and so much more. It's great. I'd even read it again. Maybe I'll read it when I'm happy again and get a new perspective.
Leaving Atocha Station
Ben Lerner
3/5
Granta 02/02/2012 Kindle
Holiday Read
If you were anywhere near me when I started reading this you know the noise I made when thinking about, talking about and reading this little gem. 100 pages took me a shameful 15 days. I should be able to read that it in an afternoon. That's just an indication of why I struggled.
It wasn't until someone pointed out that it is meant to be funny. You're meant to recognise the absurd nature of the character's thought processes that I managed to get through it. I was so close to giving up, but I felt like I needed to finish it because failing to read such a tiny slip of a book would be a new level of being a terrible reader.
I'm frustrated that I needed to be told that it was okay to hate the character, but I just had no sense of humour for the pretentiousness of the thinking even at a ridiculous level. It was also very dense to read because of the subject matter. Talking about art and writing in a deliberately pretentious way is pretty difficult to get through and even though it's meant to be ridiculous, that level of density was too much. I will say that eventually I did find myself chuckling at it, which earns it a 3 star rating.
Philip K. Dick
1/5
Penguin 01/01/1962 Kindle
Bookclub
To quote the rest of the bookclub: "The Man In The High Castle can take a flying leap". Worst book ever was also bandied about. It was a total disaster of a book. I am amazed that Philip K Dick is described as an unsung genius of his time in the introduction. Nope. Let's actually get into the reasons I would not recommend this book.
It's an alternative history, what if Hitler had won the war? Great idea, and very interesting, interesting enough to be adopted by the TV series. The book is short, which earns it it's single star, but it was difficult to read and difficult to follow in terms of writing style and story arch. Even Dick himself admitted to the unsatisfying ending that he wrote and spent the rest of his life trying to write a closing chapter that would explain. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful. This is the Edwin Drood of SciFi except that he actually handed in this unfinished piece of fiction to publishers who, schmucks that they are bowed and went on to publish it.
In cases like these I can only imagine that the editor couldn't get through it themselves. I spent much of the book feeling lost and not knowing whose side I was meant to be on. I know it's all shades of gray, but things needed to be clearer I was lost. I don't know what the significance was of any of the characters. Apparently everyone was connected, but I was so confused the whole time.
Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
5/5
Bloomsbury 16/11/2009 Kindle
Selfhelp
I am sorry to say that all of the negatives that people feel about this book, the trope of a sad woman going off to find herself, the exploitation of secular spiritualism, the cookie cutter love story. I have to say, they're all wrong.
My personal approach to this story was probably like most of the depressed women who reach out for a tiny piece of inspiration. I am incredibly sad, and I still am, the book didn't save me, it didn't save my life, but much of the thought processes appealed to me. Liz Gilbert is not saccharine, she's incredibly down to earth and empathetic. I was worried that that namaste approach was going to make me hate it but I didn't, and that's because she struggles with her life as much as I do. She get's distracted and is incredibly human.
The story is set out very beautifully and the love story is beautiful, real and touching. I say real because it's not perfect, just like every love story there's some potholes. The only struggle is that I inevitably was reading with a Julia Roberts voice over, which isn't the worst thing in the world... but it is a bit distracting.
I will admit that I think I read this at a very appropriate time for me. But nevertheless it is a well written and interesting exploration of food, language, relationships, freedom, travel and so much more. It's great. I'd even read it again. Maybe I'll read it when I'm happy again and get a new perspective.
Leaving Atocha Station
Ben Lerner
3/5
Granta 02/02/2012 Kindle
Holiday Read
If you were anywhere near me when I started reading this you know the noise I made when thinking about, talking about and reading this little gem. 100 pages took me a shameful 15 days. I should be able to read that it in an afternoon. That's just an indication of why I struggled.
It wasn't until someone pointed out that it is meant to be funny. You're meant to recognise the absurd nature of the character's thought processes that I managed to get through it. I was so close to giving up, but I felt like I needed to finish it because failing to read such a tiny slip of a book would be a new level of being a terrible reader.
I'm frustrated that I needed to be told that it was okay to hate the character, but I just had no sense of humour for the pretentiousness of the thinking even at a ridiculous level. It was also very dense to read because of the subject matter. Talking about art and writing in a deliberately pretentious way is pretty difficult to get through and even though it's meant to be ridiculous, that level of density was too much. I will say that eventually I did find myself chuckling at it, which earns it a 3 star rating.
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Circus Books
I have spent most of the summer in a park with several sets of Poi, two hula hoops and music playing. I've been watching you tube videos of Poi lessons and Hula lessons on you tube and have been doing some serious practising. I love the way both of these skills feel. Essentially I want to join a circus and am just working my way up to that. Cirque de Soleil eat your heart out.
It got me thinking about where this interest came from...There are a number of books that take place in a circus or involve a circus in some way. It's a mysterious and dangerous place, full of magic and the unusual, but everyone there can perform their elements flawlessly. In an Olympic year with all eyes on the gymnastics, the acrobats still hold our fascination (Or is it just me?).
It's an escapist theme. Run away with the circus and leave reality. but as my mum always told me, to run away, you have to have something that the circus wants. What will draw the crowds. In all of these books the characters are hunted and exploited for their uniqueness. Wings, hair, fantastic beasts, all of these books have something going on that takes the reader away from reality.
Circus elements are often used in dreamscapes, a magical escape with a touch of mania thrown in for a hint of the nightmare. What is our fascination with seeing the weird and wonderful as if it has been pulled from our own subconscious?
Here's a list of books that feature the circus, if you don't want to disappear with the circus just yet, escape with these books. Or try some circus skills in the park.
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
Water For Elephants - Sarah Gruen
Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters - Michelle Lovric
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
It got me thinking about where this interest came from...There are a number of books that take place in a circus or involve a circus in some way. It's a mysterious and dangerous place, full of magic and the unusual, but everyone there can perform their elements flawlessly. In an Olympic year with all eyes on the gymnastics, the acrobats still hold our fascination (Or is it just me?).
It's an escapist theme. Run away with the circus and leave reality. but as my mum always told me, to run away, you have to have something that the circus wants. What will draw the crowds. In all of these books the characters are hunted and exploited for their uniqueness. Wings, hair, fantastic beasts, all of these books have something going on that takes the reader away from reality.
Circus elements are often used in dreamscapes, a magical escape with a touch of mania thrown in for a hint of the nightmare. What is our fascination with seeing the weird and wonderful as if it has been pulled from our own subconscious?
Here's a list of books that feature the circus, if you don't want to disappear with the circus just yet, escape with these books. Or try some circus skills in the park.
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
Water For Elephants - Sarah Gruen
Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters - Michelle Lovric
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
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