books by Sara Gruen

books by Sara Gruen

books:

Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen

Algonquin Books, 2007

Excellent
Really great book. The characters are interesting, particularly our hero Jacob. The setting is vibrant (a circus during the Great Depression.) The plot moves at a great pace, and the material is really well researched. All of which comes together under some excellent ...

Water for Elephants: Library Edition
Sara Gruen

Playaway, 2006

Riding Lessons: A Novel

Sara Gruen

Harper Paperbacks, 2007

Awesome book
I have not picked up a book for fun for years, but I was at Live and Let Live Farm (which is mentioned in the acknowledgments) adopting a horse (who resembles "Flicka" in the story...a black Arabian mare...) and I noticed this book. It took me a while, but then I saw ...

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

harper Perennial, 2007

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Sara Gruen

Algonquin Books, 2006

Flying Changes: A Novel

Sara Gruen

Harper Paperbacks, 2007

Anyone who rides will love this book
I read Sara Gruen's Riding Lessons and then her follow-up Flying Changes and I was amazed at how well the author understands horses, stable management, and eventing. The story was fast paced and as a 40 something women with a teenage daughter and horses...I could ...

Agua para elefantes/ Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Alfaguara, 2007

Absolutely delightful
What a terrific find !! I am an avid reader and do not often find a book that I simply cannot put down, but this is one of them. Great story and so well written that you can almost SMELL what's going on. I sometimes read 3-4 books a week and rarely enjoy one ...

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Algonquin Books, 2006

Astonishing Details
The descriptive language in this unbelievably well researched book is amazing. The story transports the reader onto a circus train. It might be easy to dismiss this as a story too odd to get interested in, but it's not. Just pick it up and find yourself lost.

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Algonquin, 2006

This left me cheering
It's not often that a book leaves me cheering out loud, but WATER FOR ELEPHANTS did just that. Packed with delightfully-unfolded information about depression-era circuses, this book is more than a history of the big top and most definitely more than a mere ...