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You can’t lose (unless you want to!) with this bathroom scale. The price is so reasonable, and the product delivers. It is lightweight, doesn’t take up much room, looks clean and nice, and works wonderfully. Nothing fancy, just accurate,consistent readings, with a very easy to read display. Would highly recommend this scale!
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These are pretty good for the price, especially when you do Subscribe & Save. I haven’t had any problems with them other than the fact that I think the scent is a bit too strong.
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I lived in Greenwood, Mississippi from 1974 to 77, when DeLay Beckwith was walking the streets of that town. “Everybody knew” that he had shot Medgar Evers, but since white people were disinclined to testify against him and black people lacked solid evidence, he walked the streets a free man. He just wasn’t invited to the nicest parties any more.

I mention this because of a rather snotty review of this book in the New York times that dismisses Stockett’s rendering of dialect as “outdated” in the inimitable way New Yorkers have of dismissing a great number of things they know nothing about. I have heard that dialect as a living language (I was teaching at a black college near Greenwood), and I know that her ear for the spoken language has perfect pitch. Her eye for social dynamics is similarly acute. The southern response to the law requiring social security be paid to full-time employees, including domestics, was to reduce the number of hours those people worked until they were no longer full-time, while requiring them to keep the house running and the family fed pretty much as they had done at 40 hours (and generally more) per week.

The Help is a novel about the subversive activity of producing a book that tells the truth about how whites treat the blacks, their children, their spouses, and each other as told by those who know them best, their maids. Racism is, of course, rampant to the extent that the white have no tradition of “pas devant les domestiques:” they appear to assume that these black women are too dim to comprehend what is going on. For their part, the black women are fearful of being interviewed by the awkward white woman with literary pretentions, Skeeter Phelan, and it is no wonder: in that society, if word of who spilled the beans gets out, neither the spiller nor her family will get work again if they are lucky. The unlucky are beaten, sometimes fatally.

A turning point in the book is the murder of Medgar Evers, an event that galvanizes
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Review: The Catcher in the Rye

I can understand why “The Catcher in the Rye” has been challenged in some schools and banned in some libraries. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, uses a lot of profanity and rough language, and gets himself into some situations, such has having a prostitute in his hotel room, that many parents would find objectionable.

But many of us know someone like Holden Caulfield, or maybe we are even a bit like him ourselves, or perhaps we used to be; someone who is like a porcupine that wonders why people don’t get close to him.

I’m not sure why I waited so long to get around to reading this book that some of my friends have called one of their favorites. It was only after reading Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” recently that several urged me to read “Catcher.” All I can say is that I’m glad I did.

I read this book on two sittings, something that is very rare for me. I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to find out what situation Holden was going to get himself into next, all within the two-day period after getting kicked out of yet another boarding school.

Holden Caufield is a pathetic mess at 16 years old. Not only does he swear a lot, he insults the people he wants to be with, he smokes excessively, drinks excessively when he can, pretends to be something he’s not (but calls everyone else “phonies”), all while he is grieving the death of his younger brother and at the same time missing his older brother who has gone to be a screenwriter in Hollywood.

His little sister, Phoebe, describes the situation accurately when she tells him, “You don’t like anything that is happening.”

Yes, I think we all know someone like that. Which is why this book is so appealing after all these years.

While there is no conclusive resolution to Holden’s situation, there is enough wisdom near the end of the book from his little sister, as well as from a former teacher, to make the book redemptive on many levels.
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