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Ball four the final pitch jim bouton5/29/2023 ![]() Edited by sportswriter Leonard Schecter, Ball Four is a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season with the expansion Seattle Pilots. Bouton spent a total of 10 seasons in the big leagues, primarily with the New York Yankees (1962-1968). In the first of our monthly interview series, American Polymath editor Clayton Trutor chats with Jim Bouton, author of the greatest book ever written about baseball, Ball Four (1970). In addition to being a fantastic interviewee, Bouton was generous with his time and couldn’t have been more gracious to a young sportswriter.īelow I present my interview with Bouton in full, as it appeared in July 2009 on American Polymath. I had the honor of interviewing Bouton for a website that I used to run called American Polymath. ![]() Jim Bouton, the legendary Yankees pitcher and author of Ball Four, died yesterday at the age of 80. ![]()
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The dressmaker rosalie ham summary5/29/2023 ![]() Not that “The Dressmaker” is ever dull and is even more than occasionally delightful in its nuttiness. ![]() Hogan of “Muriel’s Wedding” fame that is positively exploding with a surfeit of pent-up creative energy that unfortunately doesn’t know when to stop. Now, 18 years later, she has adapted a book by Rosalie Ham with a script co-written by hubby P.J. She made a splash in the ‘90s with “Proof,” “How to Make an American Quilt” and “ A Thousand Acres,” before taking time off to raise her family. And that is its main problem.Īnother woman who can rightfully proclaim, “I’m back,” is Australian director and screenwriter Jocelyn Moorhouse. However, when it comes to “The Dressmaker,” nothing is ever enough. He briefly stares before inquiring, “Is that, uh … Dior?” ![]() If that weren’t enough, a car stops and a uniformed constable gets out. ![]()
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American queen sierra simone read5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() I went into this with a whole different scenario in my head, and damn it, Greer Galloway, Ash Colchester, and Embry Moore took my heart and abused it.and left me wanting more. ![]() She sucked me in from the prologue and kept me on tenterhooks with that cliffhanger ending, which was a particularly evil cliffhanger because now I'm going to have wait over five months for the release of the second book in this trilogy to learn what happens next! Gah! Do you feel my frustration, people? Well, I'm hoping you also feel just how gobsmacked American Queen has left me. ![]() What the hell did I just read? This was my first Sierra Simone read and what a fucking introduction I got. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He's about to lose it all because of the debts his mother racked up before his parents' deaths. Against her better judgment, her plan to keep her handsome groom at arm's length disintegrates into a night of passion spent in his arms.Įthan knows he can't keep playing this game - he has to come clean with Autumn and tell her the truth about the practical joke and about the state of his ranch. Making a video of her own, she casts herself as the perfect mail-order bride for a rancher, but when she finally reaches Montana, she's surprised to find Ethan's the perfect cowboy husband-to-be. ![]() A breathtakingly beautiful city bride.Īutumn Leeds needs a story - fast - or she's going to lose her lucrative contract with CityPretty Magazine, so when she sees the crazy video plea for a modern mail-order bride for a cowboy, it sounds like the story of the century. ![]() One look at Autumn Leeds changes his mind, however. This latest salvo in his ongoing practical joke battle with his best friend, Rob Matheson, has gone too far, and Ethan plans to send his "bride" right back home, then get busy plotting his revenge. Ethan Cruz should be mending fences on his Montana ranch, but instead he's driving to the Chance Creek, Montana, airport - to pick up the bride he didn't know he had. ![]()
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My hero vol 75/29/2023 ![]() Even though he's not ready, when the League of Villains attacks in the town of Hosu, Midoriya rushes to help Ida, who is engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Hero Killer Stain. Midoriya inherits the superpower of the worlds greatest hero, but greatness wont come. What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Midoriya has learned a few tricks from Gran Torino, but some things just have to be experienced to be understood. ![]() ![]() Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world's greatest hero, but greatness won't come easy. What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere. What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called Quirks Heroes and villains. ![]()
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Jimmy corrigan5/28/2023 ![]() Many critics and reviewers have hailed the comics of Chris Ware as a form of modernist cultural practice, with comparisons being made to canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, John Dos Passos and Gertrude Stein.
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Pro by Katha Pollitt5/28/2023 ![]() It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers. In Pro, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. ![]() Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. ![]() Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Pressestimmen Katha Pollitts brilliant new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, arrives like an urgent letter as rights are fast eroding. ![]()
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Rot & ruin book series5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() If you forget to water your plant for a while and then flood it with moisture, it can shock the now-fragile root system. Roots begin to shrink and shrivel when their soil is too dry. Underwatering: In some cases, not watering your plant enough can eventually lead to root rot too.While adding small rocks and pebbles to the bottom of a closed pot can increase aeration slightly, most experts recommend avoiding pots that don't have holes altogether. If your plant's pot doesn't have a drainage hole, excess water won't be able to escape from it, leading to overly moist soil. Poor drainage: This one is related to overwatering. To undergo decomposition, especially organic decomposition decay.Here are some telltale signs that you're overwatering, and here's a guide on how to tell how much water your plant actually needs. ![]() If you water yours too frequently or heavily, its soil will get oversaturated and become a breeding ground for fungi and bacteria. Different types of plants have different water needs. Overwatering: This is far and away the most common cause of root rot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() (Whoopi Goldberg owns one of her paintings!) McKissack would have been delighted by this work, and readers will treasure this special book for a long time to come. Harrison is a fine artist whose work has been featured in museums, galleries and private collections. The story ends when James Otis and his mother receive an unexpected gift themselves-a confirmation that they are also seen and loved by their community.įirst-time illustrator April Harrison’s illustrations make this quiet, heartfelt story come alive. At first, the 9-year-old boy isn’t quite sure what he can bear to part with the solution he devises makes his mother proud and brings Sarah joy. When Reverend Dennis announces that 7-year-old Sarah and her mother have lost everything in a fire, James Otis struggles with his mother’s request that he can find “a li’l bit of something” to give the girl. ![]() And that compassion shines through in this picture book about a widow and her young son, James Otis, who are struggling to survive. ![]() Generosity of spirit defined McKissack as a writer and a person. McKissack’s award-winning books include Mirandy and Brother Wind, a Caldecott Honor- and Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel, and The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, also a Coretta Scott King and Newbery Honor winner. What Is Given from the Heart - by Patricia C McKissack (Hardcover) 9. Along with her husband, Fred, McKissack helped to shine a light not only on African American history, but on the ties that bind families and communities together. What Is Given from the Heart is a fitting title for the last picture book written by Patricia C. ![]()
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Thomas sowell economics book5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Sowell, again in plain English, covers the basics (to name a few) from prices, markets, economies of scale, inflation, deflation, booms, recessions, stocks, bonds, insurance, banking, market failures, market success, causes of international wealth disparities, as well as the cause and effect of government intervention or non-intervention. The wealth of knowledge Sowell provides is easily digestible, even for novice readers such is the quest of the book.įrom the ground up, Sowell walks his readers through the basics of economics, starting, quite naturally, at " what is economics?". Sowell deviates from standard textbooks by avoiding the use of graphs and jargon, thereby delivering a plain English guide to economics. ![]() Thomas Sowell's 'Basic Economics' is as enjoyable to read as it is informative. ![]() Home Political News Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics Book Review Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics Book Review ![]() |