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Kat - May 14, 2012 4:35:42 pm PDT #18682 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

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.

Liese S. - May 14, 2012 4:52:53 pm PDT #18683 of 28326
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

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.

Kat - May 14, 2012 5:19:42 pm PDT #18684 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

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!

Kat - May 14, 2012 5:34:55 pm PDT #18685 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

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.

Liese S. - May 14, 2012 5:45:13 pm PDT #18686 of 28326
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

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.

Kat - May 14, 2012 5:49:38 pm PDT #18687 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

And Herr Theissen! I loved him.

§ ita § - May 14, 2012 5:52:24 pm PDT #18688 of 28326
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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."

Kat - May 14, 2012 5:58:50 pm PDT #18689 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

She has a life and I'm... well... boring.

§ ita § - May 14, 2012 6:13:34 pm PDT #18690 of 28326
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, that whole significant other and two kids is no big deal. Not a societal ideal, or anything. Nothing a parent wouldn't basically beg her children to achieve.

Kat - May 14, 2012 6:16:01 pm PDT #18691 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

But fuck. It's so much more exhausting and less interesting than a doctorate, a good job and the ability to take vacation without being trailed by 5 year olds. One of whom refuses to stop being on himself.

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