Water for Elephants: Week 1 Post B

Dear Sara Gruen,
Wow. I just love your book. This is a great story. The thing I love the most about your writing is all your wonderful descriptions of the things happening in the story. One thing that I think is cool is how this is just a novel, a fictional story. But you tell the story with such good information and descriptions that it sometimes seems to be like a memoir. What I also like about your writing in this book is how the main character is constantly flashing back to his time working with the circus. He’s in the nursing home in the present time, but they are little sections. Then right away, you might switch right back to an experience at the circus. And this is all without warning, which can be sometimes confusing, but if you remember the other half of the plot when you’re reading the other half, then you won’t be confused. I think that this style also keeps readers hooked on it. if something really interesting happens in one half of the plot, and then you immediately switch back to the other one for a while, then the readers (or at least I do this) really almost need to keep reading until you write something next that’s in that interesting part of the other plot. Thank you for writing this book! It’s great, I can’t wait to finish reading it! I’ll probably finish it pretty soon at the rate I’m going!

Emma