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."
She has a life and I'm... well... boring.
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.
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.
I'm not going to get into a battle about what's more exhausting living for two people who aren't me, but that's drawing glittery hearts around my sister's life right now that really aren't there.