Book #11 "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen: I first off want to go ahead and apologize for two things. The first is that there is no quote to start this post like I normally would start one, I just didn't find one that I really thought would sum up/give you a feel of the book very well, hence no quote. The second is that I am sorry it has taken me so gosh awful long to post this. I actually finished this book last Tuesday but then just kept putting off sitting down to type all this out. But here we go:
The story follows Jacob, whom when we first meet him is an old man in a nursing home and as he is reminiscing about the good old days of when he used to work on a circus we are given an inside view into the world of the 'Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth'. Jacob joined up with the 'Benzini Brothers Show' after he suddenly ran away from college upon hearing about the death of both his parents. With no other family members alive or at least not near by he just couldn't stand it so he just ran away to quite literately join the circus.
Personally I have never read a book that was based on a circus. Gruen went into a lot of detail about everything that goes on behind the scenes so that was kind of cool in the aspect that I got to learn something new. It was nice to just get to read something a little different for a change, which lets be honest is never a bad thing.
Speaking of cool things that I learned from this book, and I want to go on record that I have no idea if this is real or not or if it was made up just for the sake of the book, but in the book the circus traveled around by train and if someone got in trouble they could be "redlighted" which is basically when they would get tossed off the moving train! I don't know about you but if that is true that kind of blows my mind. I just can't imagine people staying around to work in a place if they knew there was a possibility of getting tossed off the train. But what do I know? One note that I unfortunately must make is that these was a lot and yea I mean a lot of really awkward sexual parts of the book that, as always, were randomly put in and in my opinion took away from the main story.
Overall though I really did enjoy it. I wish I could talk about the ending cause it was for sure the best part, but I don't want to ruin it for you if you do chose to read it. So anyways, next book up is going to be "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger. I've read this one before but it's been like 4 or 5 years so I figured that it was time for a re-read.
Oh in other news I graduated with my associates degree and I ended up getting 7 new books as presents. So with those and the 2 new books that came in from goodreads I now have all my books for the 50 that I'm planning on reading for the year. Yea, and it's only May...I think I might just have a addiction :(
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
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