Shelf Control #5: Life is a Circus Run by a Platypus by Allison Hawn

Posted December 26, 2018 by Alana in Bookish, Reading Memes / 0 Comments

Shelf Control

Hello Lovelies!

Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves created and hosted by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up!

Life is a Circus Run by a Platypus
Author(s): Allison Hawn
Published: 2013 (
Sweatshoppe Publications)
Length: 142 pages

Goodreads Synopsis:
Has being late to work due to dancing clowns ever been a problem for you? Have you ever had to defend yourself against a giant iguana? Does the overture to The Music Man make you violently twitch? In Life is a Circus Run by a Platypus, readers are immersed into what it would be like to live every day as if a herd of ballerinas were chasing you, without the inconvenience of actually having to run. This collection of truly bizarre short stories taken from the author, Allison Hawn’s, life takes one across the world and into the strangest crevices of civilization. The lessons learned through her adventures might very well save the reader if they too ever have to face birthing a cow, calming distraught technical support or death by furniture.

How and When I got it:

This was a Christmas gift from my sister a few years ago. I had actually forgotten about this book until I was searching for something that would fulfill the May motif of “one sitting reads” for the 2019 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge hosted over at GirlXOXO. I saw it on a list of short collections on Goodreads and had one of those “AHA!” moments. This sounds like a hysterical collection of weird experiences and I’m looking forward to reading it in 2019!

Stay Safe and Warm