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I Bought this one on a whim as my favorite authors seemed to have dried up a little. I’m so glad I did, it’s wonderful.

Jacob Jankowski is 93 (hr thinks) and in an old folks home put out to pasture. He has an enthralling story inside him that many of us only wish we had. Dropping out of college and running away with the circus as a young man, his story unfolds as a true adventure.

The circus of the 30’s is the back drop for this wonderful yarn and we follow Jacob as he navigates his way around the people, the lore, the language and the pecking order. All the characters are colorful and each brings a dimension to the story that has the reader turning pages as fast as possible. I think I blew through this one in two days. I might have done it in one had I not had commitments I had to keep.

The story is interspersed with up to date goings on at the old folks home the aged Jankowski is a resident of but, you can just tell his heart is still on the circus train of his youth. The end of the book is perfect in its simplicity and “rightness”.

To say I thoroughly enjoyed this book would somehow understate the whole experience, to say I loved it would be closer to the truth. If you want something to read that will draw you in like a moth to a flame, this might just be the book. If you want to be taken back to a bygone age of Americana complete with all its misgivings and mayhem, this might be the story. If you want to immerse yourself in a great story that, I hope becomes a movie, this IS the book.
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I can live with this scale — not thrilled, but I don’t regret the purchase.

The best thing about it is the display – I can read it without putting on my glasses (and then having them fall off because I’m looking down!). It’s comfortably large and feels solid.

Three things I’m not crazy about:

a) It is hard to turn on. It seems to need a sharp, sudden tap, as opposed to gradual pressure. I’ve been unable to turn it reliably without creating a noise. I can’t turn it on by tapping my foot on the top unless I press quite hard. Sometimes I turn it on by lifting an edge of the scale with my toe and letting it drop. One day I dropped a small box next to the scale, and it turned on, even though the box fell about 1-2 feet away. This is repeatable. But toe-tapping is ineffective unless I’m wearing hard-soled shoes (not often the case when I weigh myself).

b) We keep the scale against the wall so that it’s not an obstacle in the bathroom. It makes a loud rattling noise when you try to drag it across the floor. My old scale was much quieter. But, on the bright side, the rattling seems to be effective in turning the scale on!

c) It offers one-tenth of a pound precision, but not accuracy. I was originally excited to see that I could weigh myself with finer granularity than a pound. But it’s erratic. For example, I just weighed myself at 154.0 pounds. I then weighed myself while holding .7 pounds of objects, the scale still reported my weight as 154.0. Then when I increased it to 1.1 extra pounds, the scale read 154.8. So there is quite a bit of rounding going on, and if you want to micromanage your weight, this is not the scale for you.

We’ve had this scale for quite awhile, and it hasn’t needed batteries again, which is great. And it is miles (or pounds?) better than the old one we had, so thumbs up, with qualifications.

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Strangest thing. Worked on my computer at first and not my blue-ray player. After redoing some wiring, it stopped working altogether. Bummer.

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It’s hard for me to imagine this time in history and I’m glad of that. I’m grateful for those who fought for civil rights so that times are different now. This was a great story about good people wanting to do the right thing. The plot was interesting and the characters interesting. Most people would benefit from reading this book and would also enjoy it!
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