Books!

4-5-2013

The Night Circus By Erin Morgenstern

Status: A Great READ!!!!

 

 

I just recently finished this book and it was amazing with some very intesting circus tents!!!

Here is the the link with the synopsis:

        The Night Circus is a phantasmagorical fairy tale set near an ahistorical Victorian London in a wandering magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. Le Cirque des Rêves, the Circus of Dreams, features such wonders and "ethereal enigmas". A network of devoted fans styling themselves "rêveurs" ("dreamers") develops around the circus; they identify to each other by adding a splash of red to garb that otherwise matches the characteristic black and white of the circus tents.      
          The circus serves a darker purpose beyond entertainment and profit. The magicians Prospero the Enchanter and the enigmatic Mr. A.H— groom their young proteges, Celia and Marco, to proxy their rivalry with the exhibits as a stage. Prospero teaches his daughter to hone her innate talents by holding ever larger and more complex magical workings in her mind. Celia takes her position on the game board as the illusionist who makes true transformations, adding tents and maintaining wondrous aspects from the inside. Mr. A.H— trains his orphan ward with books in the ways of glyphs and sympathetic magic and illusory worlds that exist only in the mind of the beholder. Marco takes a position as majordomo to the producer of the circus; he works from the outside in, connected to the circus but not a part of it. The two beguile the circus goers and each other with nightly wonders, soon falling in love despite being magically bound to a deadly competition with rules neither understands; the magical courtship strains the fate laid out for them and endangers the circus that has touched the lives of so many and cannot survive without the talents of both players.

 

I think my favorate part of the book was the circus tents themselves! there was everything from a tent that was an ice garden.  everything in this garden was made of ice down to the smalles petal! then my absolute favorit was the pool of tears.  Below is an excerp from the book:

 

"the sign outside this ten is accompanied by a small box full of smooth black stones. the text instructs you to take one with you as you enter... in the center of the room there is a poop.  A pond enclosed within a black stone wall that is surrounded by white gravel..the silence in the tent becomes a quiet melancholy.  memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind.  Passing disappointments.  Lost chances and lost causes.  heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness... the stone feels heavier in your hand.  When you drop it in the pool to join the rest of the stones, you feel lighter.  As though you have released something more than a smooth polished pieces of rock." (pg 376-377)