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Topics messages Last message 1001 Books to read before you die : Wisechild's 1001 List 4 hdcclassic , Today 3:52amClub Read 2009 : Solla's reading and other thoughts 112 solla , Saturday 1:51am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : clfisha's 2009 75 Book Challenge 205 laye , Wednesday 5:01amClub Read 2009 : cabegley's 2009 reading, Part II 46 avaland , November 1550 Book Challenge : Lizzie G's more realistic 50 for 2009! 46 LizzieG , November 4What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - October 2009 180 momom248 , November 1The Green Dragon : October 2009 stuff bought 68 katylit , November 1What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 May 2007 124 usnmm2 , September 27Anglophiles : Angela Carter 28 agmlll , September 26Virago Modern Classics : All Virago/All August 149 nannybebette , September 7Girlybooks : Female fantasy/sci-fi writers 25 lucien , August 21Club Read 2009 : cabegley's 2009 reading 231 cabegley , August 9999 Challenge : SqueakyChu's 137 lilisin , July 26Readers Against Struggling Through Books We Hate : A genre of particular distaste? 30 Sandydog1 , July 3What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, April 2009 #2 160 elliepotten , May 12Girlybooks : The Books by Women that Every Woman Should Read and Why 37 ElizabethPotter , May 4Book talk : Stupid game to play 437 careyi , May 4Club Read 2009 : fannyprice's 2009 reading 238 fannyprice , May 2999 Challenge : celiafrances and the 999 challenge 31 detailmuse , April 175 Books Challenge for 2008 : Fourpawz2's 2008 Challenge 261 Whisper1 , January 275 Books Challenge for 2008 : Prop2gether's 2008 List 324 Whisper1 , January 2Book talk : Guess The Book Mk 5 168 klarusu , January 250 Book Challenge : carlym's 2008 challenge 106 carlym , January 1What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the Week of 27 September 2008 232 koalamom , October 20081001 Books to read before you die : September 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? 83 jfetting , September 2008What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the Week of 13 September 2008 203 mckait , September 20081001 Books to read before you die : Post with touchstone for all 1001? 16 arukiyomi , September 2008What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 23 August 2008 240 Morphidae , September 2008List Five Books Parlour Game : Opposites Attract II: Paired Titles 14 CD1am , August 2008Book talk : in the vein of Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman? 3 cupofsugarborrowed , July 2008List Five Books Parlour Game : Under the Big Top! 5 Scratch , June 2008Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 273 Talbin , April 2008Dormant: Book talk : Guess the book! 377 dreamlikecheese , March 2008Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have you bought and books lately? Do tell! 298 AnnaClaire , February 2008Dormant: Book talk : Books for the Hospital 23 WholeHouseLibrary , February 2008Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Share a line or short passage from your current book 261 Gary237 , November 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top Books read first half of 2007 January-June 59 Nickelini , October 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top books read 2nd quarter 2007 April - June 60 grkmwk , October 2007Dormant: Bostonians : Obligatory Favorite Book Question 22 alexa_d , July 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What book came into your home today? - June 2007 116 Kell_Smurthwaite , July 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 26 May 2007 131 careyi , June 2007Dormant: Historical Fiction : Great modern reads set in the 19th century anywhere... 42 avaland , June 2007Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? May 2007 66 jensview , May 2007Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : calico's 52 books 8 Calico , May 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 Apr 2007 149 ShannonMDE , May 2007Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? April 2007 85 rebeccanyc , May 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Apr 2007 144 GeorgiaDawn , April 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Apr 2007 136 Storeetllr , April 2007Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World are you now? 153 avaland , March 2007
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15. Beloved
16. Perfume
17. The Handmaid’s Tale
18. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
19. Nights at the Circus
20. Flaubert’s Parrot
21. Midnight’s Children
22. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
23. The Sea, The Sea
24. The Wars
25. Int ...
... here — I loved this book when I was a child!);
Black Venus by Angela Carter (collection of short stories - I read her Nights at the Circus years ago and always meant to read more but for some reason never got around to it);
Quest for the Faradawn by Richard Ford (as a child I loved ...
... — I loved this book when I was a child!);
Black Venus by Angela Carter (collection of short stories - I read her Nights at the Circus years ago and always meant to read more but for some reason never got around to it);
Quest for the Faradawn by Richard Ford (as a child I loved ...
... Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman are very different than most of her novels. There's still lots of magical realism, but Nights at the Circus and Wise Children and earlier ones like The Magic Toyshop are much different -- give her another try!
For LeGuin, start with The Left Hand of Darkness. Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus is a brilliant semi-fantasy. Her darker sci-fi/fanstasy books are The Passion of New Eve and The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffmann
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5. The Bad Girl, Mario Vargas Llosa (Early Reviewers)
4. Nineteen-Eighty Four, George Orwell
3. Nights at the Circus , Angela Carter
2. Animal Farm, George Orwell
1. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Royte
28. (New) Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
... Toby Tyler when I was a kid too. It's left a soft-spot for circus books which I occasionally indulge from Carter's Nights at the Circus to Gruen's Water for Elephants. There's just something so alluring about the idea of running away with the circus.
... Zone by Jonathan Franzen
Her Husband by Diane Middlebrook
The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter This one was on my wishlist courtesy of a bunch of LTers.
I got all of that and 3 or 4 kid's books for $21. The HPB by my house ...
... as I did read another book by Ishiguro that I liked very much - (When We Were Orphans). I don't know anything about Nights at the Circus . I'll check it out.
I only have two more books to go in the What's in a Name Challe ...
... Barker's Regeneration trilogy, The Eye in the Door.
For time of day The Remains of the Day, which is evening, or Nights at the Circus .
4. Shadow Dance by Angela Carter
(2 out of 5)
I have read her short stories & Nights at the Circus so thought I would try this, her 1st novel. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are keen to read all her work.
It’s about 2 men who stock their antique shop by taking goods from eerie ...
Nights at the Circus is one of my all-time favorite books -- and my favorite of Carter's. I do also love The Magic Toyshop, The Bloody Chamber and Love which has the best description of a 60s party that I have ever read -- rivals Fitzgerald's descriptions of the 20s and parties at Gatsby's ...
Oooo, there's a passage in Nights at the Circus that I just love. It's where she's describing the room with the trunks full of corsets . . . In the hands of anyone else, it would be considered purple prose, but in her hands it is pure delight.
Thanks for the great comments on Nights At the Circus . I've added it to my wishlist. How could I resist with all of the positive recommendations in this thread alone?
YA+SF+cold place=Gwyneth Jones aka Ann Halam's book Siberia. Good, quick read. Also Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus is partially set in Siberia.
I too love Nights At The Circus and would also highly recommend Wise Children!
... would be postponed?
I was quite relieved that the 1984 discussion was postponed, since I had been too caught up in Nights at the Circus to stop in the middle, and it turns out 1984 isn't nearly as short as I had remembered. I started it Monday, and I still had about 100 pages to go ...
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Upon suggestion by amandameale, I put together a bowl at the end of 2008 containing slips of paper representing books that were high on my TBR list, but for some reason I hadn't read yet, to be pulled from after I'd read a book of my own "free" choice ( ...
... by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (READ : 8 Feb 09)
3. To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
4. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
5. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
6. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
7. Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy ...
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5. The Bad Girl, Mario Vargas Llosa (Early Reviewers)
4. Nineteen-Eighty Four, George Orwell
3. Nights at the Circus , Angela Carter
2. Animal Farm, George Orwell
1. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Royte
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For 2008, I ...
OK, so that rules out Nights at the circus , which was going to be my next guess...
Looking at books in your library that would fit, I don't think it can possibly be Forever amber - that's a bit too old for most of us to have bought it when it first came out.
... about the industry, which is why I passed it on (returning by stealth) to my daugher, who is public relations.
I've got Nights at the Circus to read this weekend, and, because Carter is so well known in her genre, I'm hoping to like it more than Wise Children. Her short stories have been ...
#40 Killeymoon The last book I read was Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter and I too enjoyed parts of it, brilliant fun writing, but overall struggled to keep myself involved. My suspended credibility was not rewarded with enough insight.
Am almost done with The Master and Margarita ...
I finally finished Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. Just not my cup of tea unfortunately, even though the language was beautiful. Somehow it just seemed stilted, and I struggled to pick it up once I'd put it down.
Today I read The One Minute Manager (somewhat cheekily) in Borders ...
I've put Nights at the Circus on hold for a while since I just wasn't getting into it. Instead I picked up All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque which is fascinating (if somewhat heavy).
... by racing through The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde which I enjoyed just as much on a second reading. Now I'm on to Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter.
Just started Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. Not quite sure where it's going, but it was recommended to me by my old local bookseller, so I'll have faith!
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The Bus Conductor Hines
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Lover
Empire of the Sun
The Wasp Factory
Nights at the Circus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Blood and Guts in High School
Neuromancer
Flaubert’s Parrot
Money: A Suicide Note
Shame
Worstwar ...
... to 1900 and the photos are superb. I'm almost finished and will follow it with one of the 1001 Books that caught my eye, Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
... Carter's works and see if anything appeals to you there. Perhaps Nights at the Circus or The Magic Toyshop? Angela Carter is good brainfood.
... Giver / The Collector
M. Butterfly / Madame Butterfly
Incredible Good Fortune / Misfortune
Circus Days / Nights at the Circus
... True Story by Stewart O'Nan
The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day
The Circus of the Earth and the Air by Brooke Stevens
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Nights at the Circus was on the TBR list I put in post #1. This is the second time I've tried to read it, but I couldn't get into it this time, either. I had heard such goods things, but it's just not for me. So...on to the many other unread books at my house!
I almost bought Nights at the Circus a couple of weeks ago, Avaland, when I was in Boston, but went for The Buccaneers instead as I didn't have any Wharton in my collection. I'm glad you mentioned it, cuz now I have to add it to my wish list. I'm looking forward to getting more of Carter.
... gothic (creepy) story about love and madness (or, if one prefers the contemporary term, mental illness). Have you read her Nights at the Circus yet? (I adore Angela Carter, can you tell?)
Visited a great new independent bookshop in London, and picked up:
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Interesting, but not necessarily true - Nights at the Circus was very well-reviewed when first issued, and sold well. It was a surprise when it was not included on the shortlist - and it can't be because the panel was anti-feminist: three women were on the shortlist, and Anita Brookner won. (T ...
... writing seems to fit with the unreality of drugged-up hospitalness, too. Little, Big seems to fit well, so does Nights at the Circus and any of Tove Jansson's Moomin books, particularly Moominland Midwinter.
And some really good engrossing fiction for those late nights when ...
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter?
I haven't read any Angela Carter before, and I've heard such good things, but Nights at the Circus has been sitting around on my shelf for quite some time, as has The Grass Harp. I put them on the list in the hopes that if I stated publicly my intent to read them this year, it would actually ...
I agree with laytonwoman3rd--The Grass Harp is beautiful. Also, if you know you like Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus is a good one. And I will add my voice to cabegly's to say that if you liked The Singapore Grip, you should definitely add The Seige of Krishnapur to your tbr list! ...
... Freak
The Grass Harp
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Gaudy Night
Nights at the Circus Barrel Fever
The Magic Lantern
The Mother Tongue
Problems of Men
The Sins of Scripture ...
... Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop is wonderful, but my favorite of hers is Nights at the Circus with the winged aerialist Fevvers traveling across Europe and Russia at the turn of the last century as womanhood is reinventing itself.
And to go ...
... (Canadian publication), The Cosmology of the Wider World by Jeffrey Ford, Trujillo by Lucius Shepard, hardcovers of Nights at the Circus and Wise Children by Angela Carter, and a splendid, signed first edition (Canadian) of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (sorry, some ...
... of the dog in the night time (more vouchers) and I was given by a friend at work Love enduring by Ian McEwan and Nights at the circus by Anela Carter. That makes 15 books in one month. I'm going to not buy any books in the month of July except for Harry Potter unless I get a ...
Did I mention Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, set in the Victorian era and tells the rather 'tall tale' of a famous winged aerielist. Great fun!
... by Abdulrahak Gurnah(1)
* Gravedigger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates (2)
* Zoli, by Colum McCann(1)
* Nights at the Circus , by Angela Carter(2)
1. Poetry: Lizzie Borden in Love, by Julianna Baggott (1)
1. Short Fiction Collection: Burning your Boats, by Ang ...
... last three months).
Mine are (in no particular order)
1. The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
2. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
3. Black Girl White Girl, by Joyce Carol Oates
4. Angelica by Arthur Phillips
Poetry: Overnight by Paul Violi
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... drifted into my library:
"From the Realm of Morpheus" by Steven Millhauser
"The Eternals 1 by Neil Gaiman
"Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter
I have finally finished Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter after two major interruptions. Loved it! It begs rereading though!
I couldn't find some of the books (mostly short fiction collections) which are "in process" so I started reading Angelica by Arthur Phillips. I'm hoping ...
... sufficient, in its homely way, to intimidate a young man who had led a less sheltered life than this one.
From Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. The young American reporter Jack Walser is in the dressing room of Fevvers, the very famous winged aerialist extraordinaire ...
... mass of silken underthings but also the concealed layer of pamphlets and newspapers that lay beneath them.
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
avaland, I'm so glad you got Nights at the Circus back!
I am in 1850s northern England with Hard Times, by Charles Dickens.
... area with Black Girl White Girl, I have left the mid-1970s (once again) to return (once again) to the 19th century with Nights at the Circus .
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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver
Secret Agent (Wordsworth Classics) by Joseph Conrad
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Guns, Germs and Steel : A ...
... one another, but how well do we know one another?
And the good news is that my misplaced copy of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus has arrived from Maine and I will be continuing with that tonight.
... explicit in places AND I've discovered it is the first of a trilogy...
And since I'm STILL waiting for another copy of Nights at the Circus , I've started Black Girl White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates.
While I wait (still) for a replacement copy of the very excellent Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter to arrive, I randomly picked up Ice by contemporary Russian author Vladimir Sorokin. It's a thriller about a brutal cult - I'm still reading but can't really say I like it yet...
Because I'm not in the UK with Nights at the Circus ..*sobs*...and must wait for another copy to arrive in my mailbox, I'm now in Russia with a brutal and strange cult of "awakened" blue-eyed, blonde people in Ice by Vladimir Solokin. I'm not normally a thriller reader but the idea of a Russian ...
... Carter's short fiction...some of which I had read before. In the future, I'll be reading the novels. Alas! my copy of Nights at the Circus has not been mailed to me, so I'm reading other short fiction and poetry to pass the time. Five days have now elapsed so perhaps I can pick up another ...
... the 70s.
Avaland, if you fancy something shorter by Angela Carter, try The Magic Toyshop. I read this soon after Nights at the Circus and I found it just as good. Wise Children is a good read but not quite in the same 'magic realism' vein.
It seems that while I wait for my copy of Nights at the Circus to be returned to me (from where I inadvertantly left it), I have picked up Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy. I thought I might try a quick novel while I waited for Nights to arrive but it seems Angela Carter's "exu ...
... Group but are relevant here also:
Until I inadvertently left my book in Maine yestrday afternoon, I was reading Nights at the Circus . What an incredible book! First there is the voice of the main character, the prose, o the prose! the story is riveting, and we the reader are left in ...
... I became curious as to when it was published in relation to when Handmaid's Tale was published. As a matter of note, Nights at the Circus was published in 1984; Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale was first published in 1985.
It struck me that the novel is about a woman who has wings ...
Until I inadvertently left my book in Maine this afternoon, I was reading Nights at the Circus . What an incredible book! First there is the voice of the main character, the prose, o the prose! the story is riveting, and we the reader are left in the same position as the reporter. Does this famous ...
... author would be like having read many of the SF feminist classics of the 70's and later.
I took Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus with me on my trip to Maine to visit my mother. What a fabulous book! And wonderfully written. I was barely able to put it down last night to sleep. But ...
I've just picked up Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter...
I'm back on the planet and have started Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter...
... very interested in attending the Readercon panel discussion on Carter to see who weighs in.
jargoneer, I've just ordered Nights at the Circus on your recommendation:-)
I love Angela Carter's extended novels Wise Children and Nights At the Circus more than the shorter works which I tend to dip into every now and then. What a tragedy that she died an early death in 1992 at the age of 52 from cancer.
In Siberia with Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus .
As a result of discussing Carter in the Readercon thread, I thought I would go back and re-read Nights at the Circus . Either that or Wise Children are good choices to begin with, both showcase an excellent writer at her peak.
One critic pointed out that most of Carter's novels can be paired ...
... and lack the feminist fire; the middle surreal novels; and the later, 'magic realist' works. Although I realise that Nights at the Circus is her masterpiece, I like the passion and fire in the middle novels. They may have their technical flaws but these are overcome by the strength of her ...
Undoubtedly the two most impressive and easily accessible are Nights At The Circus and Wise Children. I say that because they can be read as straight forward novels and are thumping good reads. Many of her shorter stories deal with the Freudian content of fairytales and a knowledge of European ...
... accompany me, as would the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus .
... America
Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Eco The Name of the Rose
Auster The New York Trilogy
Carter Nights at the Circus
Are these writers read because they are 'literary' authors, or are the works skipped over because they rely heavily on genre scenarions? And, if ...
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