book club..

ok, so.....the book of the evening was water for elephants a surprising tale of the circus life in the 30's and nursing home life....mostly everyday......a bit of trivia for my sons....the woman whose room was right inside the nursing home door...the one who had the hat and was going downtown....seems she was the ex-mother-in-law of jan the ex-english teacher at dhs......she brought up the story and i burst out laughing.....because i had heard the story so many times.....jan also mentioned that over the xmas break donda the librarian's husband dropped dead at 35....how very tragic.....i missed it because i did not recognize her married name.....but i digress from the book.....the part about circus life that was most surprising was the way they did away with people they owed money to, or were seen as a liability to the circus.....they were literally thrown off the train in the middle of the night...either into a ditch by a red light....or off of a bridge if they didn't want any evidence....how awful.....most folks had a childhood circus story to share.....or a nursing home story......and we ended up not discussing the prose as much as we should have.......i have not yet started the next book cavalier and clay even though it is on my bedside table....just lazy these days.....