Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

This is our latest book club selection and I just sat down and read it in about 5 hours today... all 335 pages of it. So, either it was an interesting read that wouldn't let me put it down, or I was bored and had nothing better to do. I think it was mostly the first, although I was thrilled to not have anything else that I absolutely had to do.

This is a novel about a circus veterinarian back in the days when circuses traveled around by train from town to town. It gives a very interesting look into an insider's life and the politics to be dealt with when part of a train circus.

Catch up time...

So, I'm a little behind here. Since there's no way I could write something about each of the books I've read since I last blogged, I will list them as many of them as I can remember below in no particular order, since I can't remember the order I read them in!

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson (an interesting version of the story of Marie Antoinette, from her perspective)

Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley (Book Club choice - I loved this book... quick read and a good one to think about)

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean (Book Club choice - interesting, but not really my type of book)

The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory (the latest from this author, and very good)

I think that's all of them (except the latest, which I'll write a separate blog about)... busy season at work got in the way of reading much more.