Ooooh, Liese! I hope you enjoy it.

Ohhh Liese, I hope you like it. The Night Circus is absolutely wonderful. It's on my Nook shelf labeled "best books ever" alongside Good Omens. I loved it!

Ok so I finished Night Circus At about 2 last night. (And left for work at 6, but whatevs) It was truly fabulous. I love its worldbuilding and want to have little drabble world babies with it where I make other tents. Totally agree about the magic as teachable bit which I do as a vocal teacher. It can be easier or harder based on your propensities, but I teach anybody.

I loved the ending and found it satisfying in an epic mythical sort of way.

I need to read it again immediately, but more slowly.

Aw, Liese, that was so very much my response. Except I had another book in the wings.

One of the things I like so much about this book is how the resolution really satisfied -- both the romantic sense, but also how it just all fits.

I totally think everyone should create new tents.

I was discussing it with Grace's nurse and we were talking about it in relation to Time Traveller's Wife. They both have this sort of acceptance of the mystical as possible. But where TTW totally fucks up the ending and really, how hard would it have been to have the husband travel into the future when the wife would have been 80 so she would see him before she was also going to die? Night Circus allows the reader such a sense of satisfaction.

Yeah, I actually am reading 1Q84 next, but I wanted to immediately reread.

I like how it set up that there couldn't be a satisfying resolution: I was about to be really pissed at a suicidal self-sacrifice for love, but then there was! But not without a cost, you know. Satisfying didn't come free.

Well, it was pretty sacrificial just not completely suicidal. It was a beautiful and elegant solution to a fucked up problem.

I so wish I could go and see the tents! And, I love the fact that the circus had its own fandom!

Also, have you seen this: [link]

I so want to have a Night Circus themed 40th birthday party. But I'd have to plan it myself which seems uber stressful.

I know! I loved that extra layer of it. Just made it feel so much more real!

Ooh!

I kinda want to send email to the address in the book more or less constantly, kinda like Allyson talking into the wind to Tim's address, only, you know, probably to a marketing panel.

And Herr Theissen! I loved him.

Kat, but I keep forgetting you're my sister's age. For two responsible adults you're wildly divergent in lives.

She's doing a thing for her 40th, and I keep thinking "Am I 40? 45? Wait, this is about her...I'm so confused."