Book Club - “Water for Elephants”

I like books that make you think about your life, your mortality, and how the hell can you sit here and read this book while there are obviously much better people in the world doing wonderful things and not just reading about them, so depressing. I really liked the flow the author created based off the memories of Jacob both in the present as an old man in a nursing home and as a young man thrown into the circus. There are tests of his moral compass, his self worth, living with a mental illness and of course love. The most interesting aspect of the novel is the prologue and the ending of the book both told through Jacobs’s viewpoint which in the prologue sets up the killer to be anonymous and at the end with a great twist.