Sometimes you want to read great literature but then sometimes you don’t. I know as well as anyone that sometimes you just want to read a great story. You want to pick up a book and disappear entirely into another world. That is what happened for me with Erin Morgensterns’s The Night Circus. This story, which follows a mysterious group of individuals (some of whom are magicians) and a bizarre event called Le Cirque des Rêves, is a long and complicated one full of beautiful imagery and fantastical events. What I was most impressed with in this book is the amount of imagination it must have taken to think up the circus itself. The details of every part of the circus, each of its inhabitants and all of their costumes are incredible. Reading this book requires a love of fantasy and a certain level of suspended belief but its story is definitely one worth disappearing into for an evening.
---- Morgan
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