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Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
 

Water for Elephants: A Novel

by Sara Gruen

Top tags: historical fiction,  fiction,  circus,  2008,  old age (all tags)

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Angie W
  • Rated 4 stars

“Read this for book club in May 08 and really enjoyed it. Good story, engaging characters, quirky setting (circus). Yes, it was a bit contrived, but it held me till the very end. It's a book I will recommend to my high school students.”

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  • Rated 4.261539 stars
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  • Kel

    kel said:

    “I really loved the ending of this book... how it came full circle. I won't give details because it might be a spoiler, but that was probably my favorite part. I loved the colorful cast of characters and how each and every one of them played a specific role in the novel, and how some surprising characters had deeper layers than you'd have thought.”

    posted Thursday, June 12 2008
  • Simone B

    simone b said:

    “This is the most amazing book I have read in a long time.
    I found it very believable and hard to put down! Made me think about all I don't know about circus'!!!! What a fascinating life that must have been!”

    posted Friday, May 23 2008
  • Mary M

    mary m said:

    “I got a chance to hear Sara Gruen speak in person. Her personal story of writing this books is fascinating. I work at a high school and about 60 students read the book and loved it. Several students were admitted non-readers but found this one engaging. I usually like darker books with a deeper message, this was entertaining.”

    posted Monday, May 19 2008
  • Diana Elisa

    diana elisa said:

    “Beautiful book - you get the feeling it's being told to you as a story, by a family member, not as a historic moment book, which are usually heavy and take quite some side-reading to understand. This is a contagious, hard-to-let-go book.”

    posted Monday, April 21 2008
  • aphroditesings

    aphroditesings said:

    “i love this book! best one i've read so far. i thought that Gruen did an amazing job creating a life in the circus. you get to read different lives of different people working in a circus. the adventure, excitement and romance in this book kept me hooked! i finished it in less than a week!”

    posted Saturday, April 19 2008
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