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The Circus of Dr Lao by Charles G Finney is one of the oddest fantasy novels I‘ve ever read. It‘s truly unique.

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This books was absolutely nuts. It was almost as if H. Ryder Haggard and James Thurber has a baby and fostered it out to Sherwood Anderson. There are definitely problematic elements (the kind you‘d expect from a book written in the 30‘s) but they are contextually reflective of the period it was written in, for better or worse. A quick, entertaining, weird little read.

1 book completed from my TBR! I can see why this is a Gollancz Fantasy Masterwork pick. There were racist stereotypes about the Chinese that were difficult to read but overall an excellent example in how to create a cast of characters with a few words each. The book ends up being not about the circus but really about human nature. And the Appendix cracked me up. It's really somewhere between Pick and So-So for me, but I rounded up.

One of the best descriptions of cockroaches I've read. Almost makes these critters tolerable and majestic 😆 but they are still my least favorite animals in existence. Just ugh 😖

#readjanuary day 2: #thismonthstbr
I make overly ambitious TBRs, so I decided to focus only on books that I know I can get to. Okay, I cheated because I don't have the Lumberjanes yet. But everything else is on my nightstand so I will get to them. Maybe. 😝

This one deserves to be much more than a forgotten classic. I recommend all of these books! #Recommendsday