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Friday, 11 October 2013 23:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_phil_physicsFinished the ninth Maisie Dobbs mystery. Then spent an enjoyable evening with the unexpected John Grisham baseball novel Calico Joe. Mrs. Dr. Phil said it wouldn't take me long. It didn't.
Kids dream about being the player who has the most amazing, if impossibly improbable, career. That's what happens when Joe gets called up to the Chicago Cubs from AA Midland Texas. Also, it partly takes place in 1973 White Plains NY, the year after we left White Plains. Tons of name dropping.
I figured out where it was going pretty early, but that didn't detract from the story. It'd be poignant for most readers, for a baseball fan it's a thrill ride and for the Cubs fan -- it's heartbreak. (grin)
The book is even shorter than it looks, since it includes a chunk of another novel. But all in all...
RECOMMENDED
Dr. Phil
Kids dream about being the player who has the most amazing, if impossibly improbable, career. That's what happens when Joe gets called up to the Chicago Cubs from AA Midland Texas. Also, it partly takes place in 1973 White Plains NY, the year after we left White Plains. Tons of name dropping.
I figured out where it was going pretty early, but that didn't detract from the story. It'd be poignant for most readers, for a baseball fan it's a thrill ride and for the Cubs fan -- it's heartbreak. (grin)
The book is even shorter than it looks, since it includes a chunk of another novel. But all in all...
RECOMMENDED
Dr. Phil
