Stolen Bases, Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball by Jennifer Ring; 2009; 200 pages; University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, IL; 978-0-252-03282-0; 9/17-9/23
Did you know there was a World Cup of Baseball in 2008 and Japan won it. It started in 2004 and was won by the United States in 2004 and 2006. The [...]
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom; 2009; 254 pages; Hyperion Books, New York, NY; 978-0-7868-6872-8; 9/15-9/17
Mitch Alboms’ newest book returns to what made his first book “Tuesdays with Morrie” so well received, listening. Mitch is asked to give the eulogy for the Rabbi of his youth, whom he knew as “reb” and over the [...]
evil at heart by Chelsea Cain; 2009; 308 pages; Minotaur Press, New York, NY; 978-0-312-36848-7; 9/8-9/9
Remember in Alien, how every time you expected something to happen, that darn cat would pop up and then you would relax and THEN something would happen. I kept expecting Gretchen to appear here and kept getting that darn cat. [...]
Washington Schlepped Here, Walking in the Nation’s Capital by Christopher Buckley; 159 pages; 2003; Crown Journeys, New York, NY; 1-4000-4687-4; 9/6-9/8
Christopher Buckley can to D.C. to write speeches for HW Bush for one year in 1981 and still lives there. I have this in audiobook format also so if I ever go to D.C. I [...]
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy; 1989; 536 pages; Old New York Book Shop Press, Atlanta, GA; 0-937036-00-5; 9/1-9/6
This is a book that I first remember reading sometime in the late ’70’s. I remember going to see the movie in Burnaby, BC with Joanne Gripp and Rick Lindholm. I have read this book at least [...]