Water for Elephants: Week 4, Post B

Dear Sarah Gruen,

Now that I am more than halfway through your book, I am really starting to question my feelings about it from when I first started reading it to now. I like it, but it is a somewhat strange story. And I’m also not quite sure where you came up with all this information, or even what sparked your interest in writing about a man that ran away to be in the circus. I am not too sure, but I don’t think it seems like the story of your life, so I’m just curious to know where you got this inspiration. This book is good, and I like it, but sometimes I just tell myself, ‘that’s kind of odd…weird thing to write so much about…’ and things like that. I am positive that when I finish this book I will definitely understand much better why you wrote some of the things you did, but right now the whole thing is just kind of a mystery to me. It might just be me. Sometimes, there are books that I just don’t want to read at a certain time. This is probably one of them. It just isn’t making me very interested at all, and I never really feel like I want to read it badly. This is strange, because I usually feel like reading; like I want to read that certain book at that certain time. I always have enjoyed reading, but this book has been a turn-off. I’m not interested in it, and I just don’t like the plot and how it’s going. It might also be your specific writing style, but I don’t know. I just haven’t gotten into it like I always expect with books. This feeling of not wanting to read a book rarely happens for me, so this is the first time, and maybe I’m over-reacting, but I’m just not a huge fan of your book. By the way, it’s nothing personal or about you specifically.

Emma