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Summary: Surprisingly delightful!
Review: Memoir of Doris Kearns' younger years, as an avid Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Although baseball was her obsession, the story is about much more than baseball - it's about life in the 50's, childhood spent outside or at the corner soda shop, the importance the community had at that time, and the troubles and changes that adolescence brings.Great memoir, and incredibly well written and told. I thought the book was excellent, even though I glossed over the baseball parts of it! Read this for my library book group, I never would've picked this one up on my own.
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Summary: Is this orginal work?
Review: My first response after reviewing this book was where did I read this before. In the past two years, I have been reluctant to acquire anything written by this author as she has a reputation for rewriting what others have done before. Fear and trepidation consume me that I will be revisitng other authors' work. The amazing thing is that the author is so brazen that she even tries to repesent she is responsible for anything she writes. When I taught I always impressed upon my composition students that they project their own feelings and ideas. I question whether the author has an idea of her own. Rather than refer to her work any longer and use her books as a model, i embarassed she has exploited the works of others. This book may be presented as a rewite of history but I am more afraid that it is a rewrite of other authors' works. This is dishonest and makes me want to return all her books for a refund from her.
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Summary: Best baseball ever
Review: The book "Wait Till Next Year" is a suspense thriller that will leave you hanging until the next chapter. The book just doesn't talk about the way baseball is played it talks about the way the fans listened to the games. It also talks about the way of life for the fans. The author Doris Keans Goodwin made it special by telling her life story and introduced all the people in her life. She also talked about the rivals inside the little suburban area. She discussed how most of the people were Dodger fans in the area and in another area were the Yankee fans. The author also talked about how people conducted themselves when their teams won and lost. She tells you how you never should think of the past but always think of the future. Doris explains what families went through during the era when you didn't have T.V. or you had to go to the beach to swim and other places to have fun. The book really tells you the story from the viewpoint of the little kid growing up in that time period. This book was very good and you should take the opportunity to read the book. JTVK
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