https://killingmykindle.com/2018/07/26/episode-1-27-it-takes-two-to-make-a-thing-go-right/ SECOND CANNONBALL!! Wherein I review: 104. Missing You by Harlan Coben 105. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 106. The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus 107. We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson Mswas was giving me the props early, but I finally crossed that second cannonball. We’re halfway there, halfway there, halfway there. Read my favorite Harlan Coben premise with my least favorite character leading the way. Finally read something sweet and short, without bloodshed. I read a book within a book […]
Baseball and Brain Injuries!
This is a perfect little book for a high school student. It has a little bit of everything in it: a clear cut sense of right and wrong, exposure to a culture different from mainstream American (I am pretty mainstream American), precocious kids, and lovable and loving older people. It’s like a mix between Memento and A Beautiful Mind and a very one-sided version of Rashomon. Ok, not so much the last one, because instead, there’s not a lot of remembering going on. More so […]
Math and Baseball, what more could you want?
What a beautiful little story. I’m not sure who reviewed this one on here back for CBRV!, but whoever it was thank you. Enter an audible sale on Cassandra Campbell’s narration, and this was one of many snatched up. Ms. Campbell’s voice is wonderfully soothing for long car rides with the Little so we’ve been enjoying her quite a bit. The Housekeeper and the Professor is the story of, well, it’s right there in the title. Our narrator and housekeeper begin the tale explaining how […]