Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era. Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. "And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner.
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When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations-including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé-Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other-so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all. When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love-with all its complications-by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.ĭelilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls-nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. When expectations are high, well, expectations are high. Was she simply too young to handle the emotional potential of this story? She does suffer the curse of pre-pub hype. But that’s me, and I am not the author of this book.Ĭhloe Benjamin is 28. Granted, I’m not wild about magic or moneys. Still, the siblings’ connection felt remote to me. Only at the end do we learn, in hindsight, how each of the siblings think of each other. We have four separate stories here, one for each of the children who learns his fate. A good editor might have pared these down. But the question is lost in a morass of homework details. And yes, this book does raise the interesting issue of whether we are the cause or the result of our fate. She also does her homework - on sleight of hand, on gay life in San Francisco in the time of AIDS, on monkey behavior. Benjamin’s prose, which is clean, fresh, and vivid in its simplicity. So that is a positive, this unusual premise. The story describes how this knowledge directs their lives. The premise is intriguing: Four siblings, age 7 to 13, visit a fortuneteller who tells each the date her or she will die. “The Immortalists” is her sophomore effort, and while I didn’t read her first book, this one was so roundly mentioned as one of the must-reads of 2018 that I couldn’t resist. Chloe Benjamin is a young, new voice in fiction. Reading Level/Interest Level: YHS/YHS, OHSĮvaluation: This is the first Chris Crutcher book that I’ve read and it won’t be my last (even outside of this class). Together they strengthen each other and help fix pieces of their lives that just can’t seem to stand up to the rigors of everyday expectations. Life isn’t easy, but these three aren’t alone. Dillon’s brother–Stacy’s former love–killed himself a year ago, Jen has been sexually abused by multiple father figures, and Stacy has a baby that everyone thinks is her newly adopted little brother. Summary: Dillon, Jen, and Stacy are just regular high schoolers, but underneath the veneer that they show to their friends (Dillon’s a happy-go-lucky triathlete, Jen’s a basketball phenom, and Stacy is smart and beautiful), they’re all dealing with pain. Chinese Handcuffs.Greenwillow Books, Reprint Edition. And Then There Were Four by Nancy WerlinĬrutcher, Chris. Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters.The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson.Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes.The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang.The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher.Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K.the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli No wonder that he was admired and protected by Athena, the goddess of wisdom. 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Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research. |