Water for Elephants, Entry 1

I have decided to read Water for Elephants because I have heard of many other people who have read this book for this project, and from their blog posts and verbal reviews, I have decided that it must be a pretty good book and I should read it. So, instead of saying, “Oh that sounds good, maybe I’ll read it someday” and then totally forgetting about it, I have decided to read it right away, and what better purpose for which to do this than for this project! I don’t know much about this book (as with most of the books I have read so far, but that is expected, because if I knew about them a lot then what would be the purpose of reading them?), but I do know that it is about a circus, and it is a popular, R-rated movie. Hmmm...sounds interesting. I have read the first few pages and the main character was at Cornell trying to be a vet when he was notified that his parents were in a car accident and died, followed by a pretty morbid description of how his parents looked when the main character went to identify them as his parents. Also, I thought that the prologue was kind of confusing and then the main character turned into an old man and now a college kid, but I’m pretty sure this will all be made more clear throughout the book.