Book Club Meeting #1

We had our book club meeting! Things went well, it was nothing very formal. We had tons of food, way too much. We talked about the book some and about other things quite a bit. It was good to have a reason to get a group of people together, and have something that we could all talk about if we wanted to.

In case you forgot, we read Water for Elephants. Here are a few general conclusions that we came too.

The end of the book was awesome. Only one person thought it was a little cheesy. They couldn't come up with a better ending either, the rest of us thought it was perfect.

We all loved the animals in the book, the author really made them into integral characters in the plot.

We all agreed there was a good mix of character development, action plot, and humor. Anything else we talked about would ruin reading the book for you!

I have had a couple of people ask about swearing and sex in the book.
On sex: There are two scenes. They are not overly long, but they are there. They would be easy to skip as you know when they are coming. And you won't miss anything but skipping that section. Other than the two scenes, the book does not have lots of sex talk.
On swearing: There is some, but it isn't the most vulgar swearing and it is not very frequent. The book is following circus life in the depression era, if anything I think the swearing is probably less than what you would really hear. Not that it makes the swearing any better, just know that the author didn't add more just for sensationalism.

Also we picked our next book....we are reading The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi.