April 2010
9 posts
March 2010
9 posts
Water for Elephants
I just finished reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I loved it. The story is exotic, dark and romantic. It is a historical fiction set during the Great Depression. The story is of a young man’s journey with a circus as a veterinarian. It is told though the voice of the man, now a nursing home resident in his nineties. I’ve always been fascinated by and afraid of circuses am...
“For age is opportunity no less
than youth itself, though in another dress
...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
