Happy Fourth of July!

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I hope everyone has a great day filled with fireworks, barbecues and relaxation. We'll be hitting our main park to see the old time-y circus that comes to town each year and of course going to the fireworks at night. (Though this is my son's first real cognizant year, so fireworks might start to get scary. We'll see.) The circus is pretty great -- filled with death defying acts (without a net), funny clowns, and some very talented dogs -- so in honor of Big Tops everywhere, I wanted to remind readers of Katherine Dunn's wonderful novel from several years ago, Geek Love. For those who haven't read it, I recommend it highly. Dunn tells the story of a family of freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human conditon, who travel together as a circus. Geek Love was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Chicago Tribune called it "“unrelentingly bizarre . . . perverse but riveting. . . . Will keep you turning the pages.” There is also much to discuss so it makes a great book club selection. Here's the reading group guide.

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Happy Fourth to you as well! I watched an old movie very simular to this book a long time ago. Thank you for putting this up, because I haven't been able to find it, nor did I have the correct title..LOL.

Have a Wonderful Day!!!

Posted by: Robin Renee | July 04, 2008 at 06:01 PM

Robin, was it Freaks? http://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Wallace-Ford/dp/B00027JYLC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1215262698&sr=8-1

Posted by: Book Club Girl | July 05, 2008 at 08:59 AM

Happy 4th to you! Thanks for the great blog.

Posted by: Lisa C | July 05, 2008 at 12:07 PM

This sounds like a fun read, I've never heard of it. A family of freaks, geeks that travel in a circus that could be fun! Hope your 4th was wonderful, my daughters were scared the first couple of years but now they look forward to it, I'm still smelling the smoke today from all the fireworks.

Posted by: Lori Barnes | July 05, 2008 at 01:00 PM

Hope you had a great holiday! I loved this book! I read it a few years ago and it was so unique and different that I was amazed by it.

Posted by: Tracy | July 07, 2008 at 10:43 PM

This is one of the few books I could not finish. I really did not like this one at all!

Posted by: stacey | July 14, 2008 at 10:24 PM

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