tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154018142347291963.post4095104855552192875..comments2023-03-26T02:42:31.478-07:00Comments on ROUGH DRAFT: Reading Journal: "Nights at the Circus"Rob Hardyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05166703109489177628noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154018142347291963.post-50903894535636410912010-03-10T08:46:50.729-08:002010-03-10T08:46:50.729-08:00Fevvers is almost a homonym for feathers (a Cockne...Fevvers is almost a homonym for feathers (a Cockney pronunciation?), which makes it not very clever.<br /><br />I like Rob's use of the word 'pinioned.'Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221390745888733656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154018142347291963.post-373685824481858922010-03-10T00:55:17.621-08:002010-03-10T00:55:17.621-08:00Thanks for this fascinating and candid review. i a...Thanks for this fascinating and candid review. i am a big Angela Carter fan - but I think that the height of her accomplishment is her final novel Wise Children. I think that in Wise Children she uses all of the same ideas of reality and subversion that exist in Nights at the Circus - but slightly more flawlessly... <br /><br />Having said that, I do think that Nights at the Circus is extremely good. I know that it can be seriously strange but I find that quite liberating - it is quite fun to totally throw off convention - not something which, as a reader, you get to do very often. <br /><br />I know what you mean about it being unlike anything else - I always get that feeling with magical realist writers - I emerge at the end of the book kind of blinking into the light!<br /><br />Great post - thanks very much for sharing your thoughts, <br /><br />HannahHannah Stonehamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11139146341592918233noreply@blogger.com