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Water For Elephants

January 13, 2009 – 5:14 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores I loved this book. The main character is elderly & in assisted living & part of the book is about his life right now, but the main story is about his experiences as a young man working for a traveling circus during the Great Depression. Its fascinating & a book I hated [...]

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Geek Love

January 8, 2009 – 6:11 pm

I wanted to read this because I had heard so much about it. I gave it 3 stars because reading about a traveling circus family that uses amphetamines, arsenic and radioisotopes to breed a side show of deformities didn’t quite do it for me. (Maybe in my college days I would have loved it.) A [...]

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