Second Reading by Jonathan Yardley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read a little of this book while Adam was still reading it, and couldn't wait for my chance to steal it.
Lots of fun, and thought-provoking too. I want to read *nearly* every book Yardley reviews here (I'm not sure history of baseball is really my thing), and I've had a great time talking over the reviews with Adam.
Not a problem with the book, per se, but a point where I definitely disagree with Yardley (to the point where I think he might be deliberately baiting us): How can a person dismiss Steinbeck as a hack, and then praise to high heaven a paragraph about shattering "the great glass window of your idolatry" that seems pretty clearly drawn from a prep-school boy's excuse for breaking a school window?
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