Some extra books I read in August. What a miserably hot month… Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood**** Less a conventional biopic on The Mick and more a look at his life vis-a-vis his legend and the backdrop of postwar America. Not as thorough as I would’ve liked but still riveting given how Jane Leavy presents her subject. Greenwich Park*** Again glad I slept on my review. I really liked how this started but after a while, it morphed into […]
August 2022 Leftovers
Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy
Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K.C. Constantine
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees by Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland As into a Dynasty and Changed Baseball Forever by Nancy Finley
Sea Change by Robert B. Parker
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Ms. Tree, Volume 1 by Max Alan Collins