For whatever reason I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about circuses here lately. A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Erin Morgenstern’s novel, The Night Circus*, (which comes out next month) and haven’t been able to shake the circus state of mind since.
On the back cover of The Night Circus was a blurb by Katherine Dunn who wrote one of my all time favorite books, Geek Love. Geek Love is a tale “of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniacal ambition worthy of Genghis Khan…Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins…albino hunchback Oly…and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious-and dangerous-asset.” -from the back cover of Geek Love. I’ve only re-read a handful of books in my time and most of them were on accident but Geek Love is one that re-read on purpose and will probably read again sometime.
To add to this circus theme, Kaycie showed me this amazing coffee table book the other day that blew my damn mind. Take a look:
I want to live inside this book. I suppose there are worse things than having circuses on the brain.
* Erin Morgenstern will be at Lemuria signing and reading from The Night Circus on Monday October 3rd at 5:00.
by Zita
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