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.