Monday, December 26, 2011

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Cruen*****

I recommend this book highly. Very well written and researched. The author just leads you in gently and bam you're flipping pages like pancakes. I like the tone, her writing style, easy flowing storyline. Begins with a 90 yo gentleman in sort of a home who dreams and remembers his life after college. His parents both died in a tragic car accident and he missed his veterinary exams due to his depression, hopped a train which turned out to be a circus and thus the meat of the story begins.

The way animals were treated in circuses back then (the 1930s) wasn't very nice but with Jacob helping out it seemed better for some of them.

It's a romance, a man reaching adulthood story, mean people that karma catches up with. There's laughter, tears and that's what a good book is. It carries you into a world of someone else's imagination. Liked this one a lot.

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