{"id":3231,"date":"2011-06-01T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2011-06-01T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:51:22","slug":"water-for-elephants-by-sara-gruen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: <em>Water for Elephants<\/em><br \/>\nAuthor: Sara Gruen<br \/>\nPublisher: Algonquin Paperbacks<br \/>\nSource: My personal library<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/WaterForElephants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3237\" title=\"Water For Elephants\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/WaterForElephants.jpg\" alt=\"Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in reading Sara Gruen&#8217;s books for years.\u00c2\u00a0 In one of the first interviews I read of hers, she mentioned she wrote the first draft of this novel during NaNoWriMo and it&#8217;s now a habit.<\/p>\n<p>While I was off work last month due to a viral infection I felt like I had to read this before the movie was widely released in theaters.\u00c2\u00a0 This was a great book and I can see why people would want to read it with their book clubs.\u00c2\u00a0 The story alternates between the past and present lives of Jacob Jankowski.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s in his last weeks of veterinary school when he receives bad news from home.<\/p>\n<p>It has a beginning that tricked me and an ending that worked. There are several themes running through the book which<\/p>\n<p>The movie has been out for several weeks and I&#8217;ve managed to avoid any reviews of it. I&#8217;m really quite surprised. \ud83d\ude42 Reese Witherspoon is older than her character but I think she&#8217;ll be able to pull it off. Robert Pattinson I&#8217;m not so sure about. Eventually I&#8217;ll get around to seeing it to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Water for Elephants Author: Sara Gruen Publisher: Algonquin Paperbacks Source: My personal library I&#8217;ve been interested in reading Sara Gruen&#8217;s books for years.\u00c2\u00a0 In one of the first interviews I read of hers, she mentioned she wrote the first draft of this novel during NaNoWriMo and it&#8217;s now a habit. While I was off&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3231\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[493,494],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-sara-gruen","tag-water-for-elephants","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}