Category Archives: The Night Circus

Litreview

Posted on 20 December 2020 by Henry Gee

Yes, it’s that time again, when I list the books in the year just passed that I have most enjoyed. I’ve been doing this since 2014. That’s when I started noting authors and titles of books I’d read in a … Continue reading →

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The Night Circus

Posted on 29 April 2014 by Henry Gee

When Crox Minima (13) urged me to read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, which happened to be a favourite book of one of her classmates, I assumed that it would be the kind of book one would associate with, … Continue reading →

Posted in beatrix potter, china mieville, erin morgenstern, fantasy, magic, neil gaiman, steampunk, The Night Circus, Writing & Reading | Comments Off on The Night Circus

Books I read in 2012 – an amateur’s review

Posted on 1 January 2013 by Sylvia McLain

US Congress has just kicked the fiscal can down the road. Global debt worries are abated. Well for now anyway. Instead of obsessively reading reports from the USofA – or in reality in addition to reading reports from the USofA … Continue reading →

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