The Good Enough To Be A Movie Book Club

Daisy and I both wanted to read Water For Elephants and neither of us wanted to wait for the other to finish. So, we declared ourselves to be a book club and bought two copies. Daisy finished her copy about a week ago and I finished mine yesterday. In the spirit of being a book club, we asked each other if we liked the book, "yes," and if we were surprised by the ending, "yes" and if we wanted to run away with the circus "yes." Or at least I was a "yes," I'm not sure about Daisy. Then, we rewarded ourselves with tickets to the movie version also called Water For Elephants. We were the only people in the theatre, so we propped our feet on the seats in front of us and cheerfully sliced and diced the movie. The lead actor, whose name I don't remember, also played Edward the vampire in Twilight. I kept expecting him to sprout teeth and wings and then fly away with the elephant. That would have made the film a bit different from the movie. The lead actress Reese Whitherspoon seemed a bit old for her part, but maybe I'm jealous because she got to ride the elephant. If I ran away to the circus, I would want that job. Daisy liked the little circus dog. If she ran away to the circus, I'm pretty sure Daisy would take her cat Cracker with her and try to get him to do dog tricks. Fat chance, as he's a cat, but that Daisy, she's an optimist. With one book successfully clubbed, Daisy and I have set a few rules: Our book picks have to ones being made into movies (so we can go to the movies) and there will be no long discussions about the books. We don't want to explore how the author was defining modern society or existentialism or anything else through his/her work. We simply want to read books that someone, somewhere, thought wow, that story is good enough to be a movie. It's on to The Help f/b Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.