Book Review : Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

I absolutely loved loved this book. The characters were easy to follow, to relate to . I felt like i was riding along, like i was a part of the circus!

Jacob Jankowski : " I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." Jacob is living in a senior citizen home, grumpy, depressed and starting to lose his memory . The author does a wonderful job of alternating between Jacobs story of his life in the circus and his current life.
The details of circus life, the struggles, the sadness and the happy times.

I'm not very good with reviews, heres the review from Barnes and Noble:

Synopsis

Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. He introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus's animal trainer); and to Rosie, the seemingly untrainable elephant Jacob cares for. Beautifully written, with a luminous sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells of love in a world in which love's a luxury few can afford.

I highly recommend reading this one. On a scale of 1-10 this definitely gets a 10!!

Well its that time again! Monday Monday.... So what am i reading?

Currently reading:

This is starting out slow for me. I 'm having a hard time getting into it.

Next up is :
From Amazon Review: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. At the start of Freely's complex, often riveting novel set in contemporary and Cold War Turkey, a journalist known only as Miss M returns to Istanbul in 2005 after a long absence at the request of Jeannie Wakefield, whose father, William, was an American spy. Jeannie hopes that Miss M will write an article to help her husband, once Miss M's lover, who's been detained in the United States and sent to Guantánamo. A few months later, Jeannie disappears, leaving behind a long letter detailing events from the 1960s. The main narrative threads—extracts from Jeannie's letter; Miss M's memories of Istanbul from that same period and her present-day account of investigating Jeannie's long-ago indoctrination into a Communist cell, which was at one point charged with the infamous but possibly apocryphal Trunk Murder—interweave toward a quietly stunning conclusion. Both mystery/thriller and mainstream literary readers will be well rewarded. Freely is the English translator of Nobel Prize–winner Orhan Pamuk's novel, Snow. (May)

Oh i'm editing my reads for the week. Went to the library and picked up Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen. I've wanted to read this badly and it was finally at the library! I also snagged Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See. I've seen some great reviews by this author so i thought i would see what it's all about. Happy Reading!!!


~~Anyway, last weekend we were supposed to go camping. It was a new camping spot, we've never been there and when we pulled in, the spot was too small for us to get into! Talk about a huge disappointment. My son was crying, poor guy. Sooo we ended up going to the town rodeo and staying the night by the river in a pull out. It wasn't so bad but its not camping!!


Have a happy week!!