Water for Elephants in The Dusty Bookshelf

May 20, 2011 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, great-literary-fiction, reading-women, permanent-library, anne-booklady-2017, summer-2017

"I DON'T TALK MUCH about those days. Never did. I don't know why - I worked on circuses for nearly seven years, and if that's not fodder for conversation, I don't know what is.

Actually I do know why: I never trusted myself. I was afraid I'd let it slip. I knew how important it was to keep her secret, and keep it I did - for the rest of her life, and then beyond.

I've never told a blessed soul."

And I'm so glad that the 90 or 93 year old Jacob Jankowski tells us readers his story. He's in a pro ...more

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Apr 17, 2011 Dana (dana_reads_books13) rated it it was amazing

I absolutely loved this book. Fabulously written and I could not put it down!

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Nov 14, 2009 Jane(Janelba) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I loved this book. Jacob Jankowski was a wondrfully portrayed character and the tribulations he faced during his life. Marlena is beautiful and creative. August is a man suffering from pschitzophrenia which well written about in the book. I ws intrigued by circus life in the 1930's/1940's.

I didn't see the ending coming either. ...more

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Aug 12, 2010 Rebekah rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-star-reads, american-historicals, 2011, all-the-hype-that-money-can-buy, historical-all

I'm not usually a hype reader... I've been disappointed too many times. I read what appeals to me and not what people tell me I should be reading. Luckily this book appealed to me.

It was amazing to say the least. ...more

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