pickThis book was pretty heartbreaking.
The animal abuse.
The human abuse.
It was hard to read at times. But I did enjoy the ending.
This had been on my TBR since seeing the movie in theatres.
01.15.2025
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Water for Elephants: A Novel | 
pickThis book was pretty heartbreaking.
The animal abuse.
The human abuse.
It was hard to read at times. But I did enjoy the ending.
This had been on my TBR since seeing the movie in theatres.
01.15.2025
Uncover the magic of the circus and a captivating romance in 'Water for Elephants' - a must-read from Virginia's Manuscript Monday on Book Interrupted‘s blog.
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pickPicked this up because the stage musical is premiering soon and I'm glad I did! Not necessarily a surprising story, but a well-told one, and an immersive one as well. Jacob might be the only person who ever successfully ran away and joined the circus! #historicalfiction
#Movietime
#DecemberDreams
Loved this one!! 🎥 🐘 ❤️📚
Hey now, opening on Broadway March 2024!
https://deadline.com/2023/09/water-for-elephants-broadway-opening-1235543557/
pickThis has been on my TBR since it was published. Finally got to it. I enjoyed it despite the animal abuse. I knew it was coming though...because circus.. Story of Jacob who joins a Depression era circus. He recalls that summer and all its horrors as an old man. It was enjoyable. I give it 3 stars.
pickHauntingly gorgeous story of a man‘s time working in a circus during that Great Depression. The author doesn‘t shy away from the grim and horrific realities. I loved both the story line of the man while working in the circus and then as an elderly man living in assisted living. Often the story can be hard to continue due to the graphic nature of some scenes but I kept listening because of my curiously how the story would end. Cont ⬇️
pickThanks to #trappedonanisland I have finally finished this one. It's been on my TBR for YEARS! It started off kind of slow for me, but then it really picked up. Now, I can finally watch the movie. 😁
@HeathHof #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
pick🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪 The story of a college kid who joins a struggling circus in the 1930s. This was an excellent book! I recommend it to anyone who enjoys historical fiction.
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Still not ok 😭 Did Camel and Walter just get redlighted?? 🥺Why couldn't he just stay put!! I mean he didn't even go through with what he intended.
pickFound this at a yard sale in the free box so I had to take it!! Took me a minute to get into it but about half way through I couldn‘t put it down!! Very good book happy I stuck to it!!
#BigJuneReadathon #PhotoChallenge #RelatingToWater This one has been on my bookshelf for a long time- I've heard it's a great book, I just never seem to pick it up to read.
@Clwojick
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I really enjoyed this story, especially Jacob‘s later years. It‘s not a happy tale through most of it, but little snippets of the better parts of humanity shine through and give the reader a breather. The idea that staying on a circus with sadistic, abusive “leaders” that didn‘t always pay you was better than leaving to look for something else during The Great Depression is mind blowing. I truly loved the ending. Rosie is the best character!
#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: Greatest Showman
Sara Gruen lives in Asheville (or did) and I had the good fortune to meet her at a private screening of the movie as a Humane Society event. She was lovely and very humble.
pickI strongly disagree with the choices of casting for the movie. Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon should not play the main love interests in this story. That being said, I really enjoyed this revisiting of a book I loved in high school.
pickI had a hard time through most of this book. I enjoyed the writing but honestly life in the circus (and the treatment of the animals) just made me uncomfortable, even though the author spoke the truth. And there were times where I felt the protagonist was lacking a spine. But I was so glad I stuck with the book. The last 15% of it packaged it all up in a bow for me and I finished the book with a smile on my face (what more could you want?)
I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl
I hope you‘re all enjoying your Wednesday evening as much as I‘m going to enjoy this. I really need proper wine glasses. These medal cups are pretty much unbreakable. As you can see, the same can‘t be said for the paint on them ?♀️ Also, I love Terra Sávie Rosé. It has taken a while, but I‘ve definitely found my favorite to enjoy at home ?
Can someone teach me how to blur out the rest of a page, so I can highlight a quote? The paragraph that starts with “Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I‘d choose the corn.” is what I wanted to highlight. After about a half hour of fussing with different settings on my phone, I gave up and I‘m posting a pic of the whole page. 🤦♀️
pickI know it was a love story & that it would have a happy ending. (I haven't seen the movie) What makes it different is that its not a love story that starts away like most of them do. It starts out with a person trying to find themselves after literally loosing everything & trying to get through it all. It approached first of finding yourself thro grief & then still being able to love everything more or less round you.
I'm re-reading a favorite novel this week. 🐘 I'm packing to move, and conveniently found this bookmark, too!
Really enjoying this book!
https://www.vulture.com/article/sara-gruen-charles-murdoch.html
Ever wonder where Ms. Gruen‘s next book is due out? You‘re in for QUITE a surprise 😱😱😱🥺🤯
This has the makings of a Dateline episode of ever I thought so! Wow! #waterforelephants
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://suspensebookreviews.home.blog/2021/04/20/water-for-elephants-by-sara-gru...
I LOVED this novel! Can I give this more stars please?! I was not expecting to enjoy this one, as the circus is not something of my interest, but I was proven wrong. This novel was marvelous in so many ways! The writing was beautiful, and filled with detail. The characters were brilliant. There was so much more to this than a circus. A new favorite!
Book Spin Pick: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by SARA GRUEN - I am actually not a fan of circuses, for a magnitude of reasons, but this novel sounds amazing. I was able to read a bit already and I'm hooked! Lovely!
"When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate" Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Used bookstore haul
$13.97 for this beautiful stack!
The only one I‘ve read is Water for Elephants but it‘s been years and it‘s been on my heart to reread it for awhile this year.
I‘m totally in love with this book. Have 95 pages left over and don‘t want it to end. 😍
so-so⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 I love elephants so much, so it was hard for me to read this one with all of the violence toward animals. The story was pretty good. Just hard to get past the uncomfortable bits.
My husband & I had a date afternoon. A trip to purchase a headband for me via Marketplace. Dinner at The Sandbar & Grill, where our son is a cook. A short walk at the Rabbit River Nature Trail. As an added bonus, there was this LFL at the entrance to the trail. I intended to leave the 4 books I photographed. You can see why I was thankful I had a basket of books in the car. I left them all & straightened up like the librarian I am! 📚
Love this Quote by Dr. Suess!
My 11yr old daughter picked a book up from my 2020 TBR pile this week & was caught in the first chapter. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to read a book together with her.
In the past we have only read a handful of novels together & the process is so slow that it takes each book about a year to complete.
Loving this time together, sharing & growing the love of books & stories.
I just received a housewarming present from the lovely @Mynameisacolour ! Thank you, Miss Heather! #JB #JustBecause
so-soBook #8 - I read almost all of this one over Memorial Day weekend outdoors: at the pool, at the dog park, on the patio. When I opened it up, I found that the bookmark within was a flyer for a club that we used to go to during my study abroad, nearly 7 years ago.
so-soBook 1 of #bookspinbonanza completed! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was pretty good; there were some major cliches, but overall a decent read 👍🏼 On to the next!
First up for #bookspinbonanza ☺️ This book has been sitting on my shelf for AWHILE so I‘m excited to finally read it!
I am embarrassed to say that I can‘t start the #pemberlittens S&S because I realized, on April 30th, that I owned EVERY SINGLE Jane Austen novel...except that one 🤦🏻♀️ So I am still waiting for the book to come in the mail. I am just dumbfounded that I own Mansfield Park, but not S&S 😂
