What are you currently reading?
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
For Study: The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
What did you just finish reading?
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Review up tomorrow)
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E Reichert
The Flying Circus by Susan Crandall
What do you think you’ll read next?
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Trust No One by Paul Cleave
Tess of the D’Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Aw man, guys! I was doing so well with posting every day, and then I finally ran out of posts. I knew it would happen at some point. Sorry to leave you hanging yesterday.
But…we were out of town this weekend for my 10 year reunion, so while I was reading, I didn’t have time or access to type it all up. It was a whirlwind of 14 hours in the car, dinner with his family, drinks with some awesome Indy friends, more time in the car, having an amaaaaaaaaaaazing time with some people I haven’t seen in a decade, a day with my family, and then another 14 hours in the car. PHEW. I am exhausted!
The title of today’s book is especially apt, because my weekend WAS The Flying Circus!
This was a fun book to read on the way up through the south, because we are obsessed with the cropduster planes in Arkansas. They are so fun to watch swooping and diving across the highways and fields. We even saw one dive parallel to the other side of the interstate, to spray directly under some powerlines that left one tiny strip of field close to the road. I would have been terrified to be driving next to him!
The Flying Circus is set in the 1920s years when flapper/prohibition was raging. Three people running from their lives find each other in small-town Indiana and put together a stunt circus with an airplane and a motorcycle. Oh, and don’t forget Mercury, the sausage stealing dog! They become a surrogate family for each other and travel around Indiana and Illinois, selling their show, mostly making just enough to live on and pay for gas. Their love of adventure and need for the road/air is what drove them, not money. They did know they couldn’t do it without each other.
I’m usually not in to the flapperesque period pieces, but I really enjoyed this one. I had a hard time putting it down, and it was a great one to read while travelling. There was a triangle romance, and plenty of other drama, but it ended quite sweetly. This comes out next week on July 7th, and it comes highly recommended by me!
NetGalley provided this ARC for unbiased review.
As I Lay Reading 