Comments | chronographia: "We Lead Strange Lives, Chasing Our Dreams Around From Place To Place."

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"We Lead Strange Lives, Chasing Our Dreams Around From Place To Place."

Apr 13, 2013 00:51

Little stray book, oh how you have delivered. Possibly to the point of pandering to my tastes, but so few authors know the way into my heart and my bookshelves is via Hamlet quotes and ravens that I doubt any pandering was intentional. (Here follows blockquotes from Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus! You . . . you knew that was coming, right? I ( Read more... )

not revenge tragedies again, snowsnowsnow, lamentable comedie of errors, the printed word, hating the heat, corvidae

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hannah_nutwood April 13 2013, 05:47:13 UTC

This book has made my commute to and from work on the crowded bus exceedingly more enjoyable than I ever thought it could be. I am refraining from reading your block quotes, however, because I do not want any spoilers. You were completely right, Ms. Morgenstern's writing style is so effortless and engrossing. I have not felt this excited about a book in a long time.

chronographia April 13 2013, 05:57:26 UTC

Oh gosh! I did try to pick non-plot involved quotes to pull. The multiple timelines do help in that regard, although you may now know that there is an ice garden contained in a tent, and at some point, it is discussed. Um. Sorry.

I'm glad you're enjoying it though. In the process of copying out these bits and pieces, I've just noticed that everything is written in a non-standard tense - this ties in with the multiple storylines I think, but it also keeps everything very present, one set of imagery being encountered after another. What do you think?