The Opposite Field by Jesse Katz I was first attracted to this because it seemed to be about baseball. As I read the dust jacket it is about the author’s tenure as a little league commissioner. As I read more I found out the author is the son I never knew our former mayor, Vera [...]
Way back in the day, this was one of my favorite songs. I really like the lyrics and hope this is how my relationship is with Ruth Ann. At one point I bought the 12 inch single of this song on vinyl and used to play it on our turntable. click on the album cover [...]
61 Hours, A Reacher Novel by Lee Child; 2010; 383 pages; $28.00; Delacorte Press, New York, NY; 978-0-385-3458-8; Checked out from the Multnomah County Library, Gresham; 6/26-6/27 Jack Reacher catches a tour bus through the frozen north of South Dakota. When the bus finally makes it to the town of Bolton, Reacher finds himself in [...]
Hell Island by Matthew Reilly; 2006; 115 pages; $2.99; Pan Books, London, England, UK; 978-0-330-44232-9; Checked out from the Multnomah County Library, Saint John; 6/25-6/26 Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield and his team jump out of a perfectly good airplane and land on a an aircraft carrier where an unspeakable enemy awaits. Once again the defense department [...]
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller; 254 pages; 2009; $19.99; Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN; 978-0-7852-1306-2; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, North Portland; 6/23-6/25 I think that Donald Miller could make a grocery list interesting if he wanted to. This book grew out of [...]
