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The Complicated Splinter

The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams by Ben Bradlee, Jr.

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Read as part of CBR14Bingo: star. Ted Williams was one of the biggest stars in baseball history and this biography is worthy of him. When I read Leigh Montville’s Ted Williams: The Biography of An American Hero about ten years ago, I figured that would be the end of my journey with the life of the Splendid Splinter. I liked reading about Williams, I find him interesting, but I didn’t need more than one 500+ page work on his life. When Ben Bradlee, Jr. dropped this 775 page tome […]

You’ll want to know about his mother, she being crucial to the Kid’s beginnings.

The Kid by Ron Hansen

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I am not entirely sure what to do with this novel. It’s a novel about Billy the Kid written by a novelist I really like, Ron Hansen, but who probably hasn’t written a very good book since the 1990s. The books of his I really like include westerns, so that isn’t the issue, and the writing is solid, mostly, so that’s not the issue. The novel starts with the background and history of the Antrim family (where Billy the Kid comes from) talks about childhood, […]

Adoption is a serious business, but it can be very entertaining to read about

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant by Dan Savage

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I’ve been reading Dan Savage’s Savage Love for years and years now, and when I’m in the mood for Podcasts (which I have to admit, I rarely am, I just can’t seem to get into them, it puzzles me greatly), I often listen to his Savage Lovecast. He’s generally quite open about himself, his life and his experiences, so I already knew that he was married and that they had an adopted child. My BFF Lydia recommended this audio book to me when I visited her […]



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