Comments on: Five Things I Learned About Sara Gruen’s ‘Water for Elephants’ From the First Two Chapters http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/#comment-4277 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:10:49 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/#comment-4277 Speedy: I’m hoping to finish the book and post at least a short review next week. But that’s a bit iffy because the novel has 300+ pages, and I have a stack of books that look more interesting.

There’s a reading group guide to “Water for Elephants” at the back of the paperback edition (which should also be posted on the Algonquin site). The guide is extensive but dry and not likely to get anybody excited about the book. So if I do a Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide it will deal with questions not covered in that one.

Could I use your real first name on this site? Or should I call you Speedy?

Malcolm: “Maybe it’s all ‘camp’” … Oh, I wish. This is an extensively researched historical novel about a Depression-era traveling circus.

Thanks so much for both of your comments.
Jan

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/#comment-4276 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:10:22 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/#comment-4276 Maybe it’s all “camp.”

If not, yawn.

Malcolm

]]> By: speedytexaslibrarian http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/#comment-4274 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:42:15 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/five-things-i-learned-about-sara-gruens-%e2%80%98water-for-elephants%e2%80%99-from-the-first-two-chapters/#comment-4274 Oh boy! My long-distance book club just chose this as one of our selections for 2007-08 three days ago. Do you think you are going to finish it and write a reading group guide?

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