I moved onto another book, "Cirkus" by Patti Frazee. It's a very well written book, and it's defintely keeping my interest (since it has to do with sideshow performers and the traveling circus in general), but I found that I'm having some trouble with this particular book. It's about several different people involved in the circus: the siamese twins, the fire spitting dwarf (little person), the dog girl, the fat lady and the skeleton man, the fortune teller and her husband, the ringleader of the circus. Now, being that there are many different characters each of them has a story, and most of the books I've read in the past that are similar to this, those smaller stories feed into one, larger story.
I'm 150+ pages into the book, and I'm seeing very minimal signs of that larger story. In a way that bothers me. Because I don't really like to read books that have absolutely no point to them whatsoever! I think (I'm hopeful) that this book is going to be differnt than those pointless ones.
On the same note, a part of me can't wait to finish reading this book. Not because I want to see what happens (though that is a part of the reason, just not the whole reason) but because I just bought this new book, a memior (which I rarely read) about a Jersey Girl and her experience working at Rolling Stone Magazine. It's called "But Enough About Me...A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous" by Jancee Dunn, and I really can't wait to read it.
And I just can't stop reading one book, to pick up another. Nor can I read two books at one time. I don't have the concentration or the attention span for that. I wish I did though. I have this friend, and he can read like 3 or 4 books at a time. Amazing....
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