Agua para elefantes / Water for Elephants (Paperback)

from SqueakyChu

I never liked circuses all that much, but Sara Gruen's book is certainly vastly different than Toby Tyler or Ten Days with a Circus that I read as a kid. Perhaps that was the last time I read a book about a circus. Given the human cruelty and animal abuse in Water for Elephants, that's probably w...

from David_Brown

I read this book at the suggestion of a friend, and approached having scanned some reviews and thinking it was a story speaking of animal cruelty. In my first setting, I lost track of time and had extreme difficulty putting the book down. It was finished days later. The story is touching, and the...

from Castlelass

Interesting story about a young man who accidentally joins a circus in the 1930s, after his parents passed away, leaving him penniless. I found the novel thoroughly engrossing. I appreciated how the author included circus episodes from her research. If you like historical fiction, stories about t...

from jhedlund

This book was amazing. The pace is almost like the circus train itself: it starts chugging forward slowly and then before you know it, you're flying so fast you can barely keep your balance! Gruen's writing is so evocative -- you feel like you are on that train and in those tents. You taste the f...

from varwenea

I wasn't expecting much of anything when I started this book. Circus, a love story - the end. I was thus pleasantly surprised to find quite a bit more in these pages: Details of the train-based circus life - the business itself and the ranks amongst the owners, performers, workers, and all the 'n...