The dual stories of Catherine, a burlesque performer in modern times who uses a hula hoop in her shows and Columbina, a fiesty 16th century Italian clown whose company is kidnapped on their way to France. Along the way we learn the true history of the hula hoop. An interesting read!Want to see her performance of the dying swan:
http://www.youtube.com/judithlanigan

Starting a mini bookring so first up is carole888 then off to sfogs in NZ. Maybe we'll find some other readers after them?! Hope so!

On the way to carole888

It's here .... safe and sound with me. I am looking forward to reading it soon for it looks really good. Thank you!!

Just jumping in to say thanx to carole888 for finding another reader! Yah!
So after sfogs (NZ) is
aleonblue (QLD)
L1nda (Newcastle)

No worries Lisa! I enjoyed this book... and I hope lots more hop on board to read this. It was a very quick read for me. The short chapters made it easy to put the book aside and pick it up again. The author has been a very busy girl indeed and led a rather unusual kind of lifestyle!! How enterprising of her to put it all down in a book. I loved the little short snippets of the history of the hoop in between the parallel story that happened in 16th Century France... together with the authors own story ... A nice blend!! I went on to look up the author and found The Hula Hoop Website with more information that was very interesting. Thank you for sharing this book Lisagt and I have just popped it in the post box this morning ... registered post to NZ tracking no RP003103477AU Hope it travels well!!

This book has arrived safely in New Zealand. Thanks everyone!
There are a few books ahead of this one but I'll get to it as soon as I can.

On it's way to Australia!

Arrived in my letterboc a couple of days before Xmas - lucky it didn;t get wet with all the rainy weather we're having at the moment!

Posting this off to the next person on the BookRing. Certainly a different kind of novel - thanks for sharing.

Arrived safe and sound thank you. I'm in the middle of a rather large book atm, so it might take me a little while to get to it. I hope that's ok.

Sending this book home. I struggled to get into it, though I think it's more me than the book. Thanks for the opportunity!

Home again. Thanx to everyone who joined and kept the ring moving.

Outside the entrance opposite Mary Ann Dr