Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

I'm gonna move this over to Goal/Accomplishments until someone has read it and is ready to discuss. Congrats, though!

Sara is a friend of mine. I wonder if she'd be happy having her alias at WN broadcast here? I sent her an email, but I think I know what the answer will be.

Denise, I'm gonna have the OP edited. Please PM me if there need to be a change. Thanks!

Thanks, Perks.

I deleted the reference to Sara's nick.

Thanks, Frank. Can you take it out of the thread title too?

Her last name is Gruen. That wasn't the problem, it was her online nickname that was the issue.

I'm confused as to why this thread was moved here?

It says why in the book club thread.

This was added to the Bookclub forum and, being a brand new release, was unlikey to have gotten the appropriate attention there.

There was also some question to the motivation of the original poster, who hasn't been back to clarify, as he or she made somewhat of a production in revealing the author's screen name on another website.

Denise has some knowledge of the author and thought that she may prefer to keep the two venues separate.

That's why it's here and that's why the post has been edited.

I finished this a few weeks ago. Sara is a friend of mine, also, but it didn't influence my decision that this was a great read!

All you need to do is read the prologue and you'll be hooked, I promise. I could hardly put the thing down.

Loved it, and I just finished another one of hers - Riding Lessons - which was also very good. I want to start the sequel, Flying Chances, real soon.

Sara's enjoying quite the success right now and is on a gruelling book tour until July 28th. The book is now in its 6th printing from what she told me the other day.

Big congratulations goes out to her once again! Here's hoping we can all say the same one day.

Very cool, I've got it to read as my real life book-club book this month. Great to know it's from another AW'er.