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Okay, MLB playoffs start today. If the Royals lose I read ten pages of the Foote. If they win I do five of V. Fun way to channel my emotions.

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1. Field of Dreams
2. Killing Eve (TV show, but SO much better than the book)
3. The Notebook

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We're back with one of our favorite episodes, the author fantasy baseball draft! Back from his win last year, author Sam Ernst joins us for an extra long episode. New this year, we each pick multiple teams, drawing from specific genres or regions. Listen to find out who gets drafted to the Sci-Fi team, or Literary Fiction Team and tons more. We hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZPzMaZUQ5NVfSzb95OFou

New Patreon episode just posted! We begin this week with a depressing discussion on censoring books and then move into picking a few baseball books to read over the season.

We end the episode with everybody's favorite book club, Thriller Corner! This time around we are picking a “whodunit.“

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"If you build it…" #OnThisDay in 1989 Field of Dreams held its premiere screening. Listen, I know this amounts to the bookish version of near-blasphemy, but I'll say it - sometimes the movie IS better. And for me Field of Dreams > Shoeless Joe. And James Earl Jones' Terrence Mann >>> the fictional J.D. Salinger. Kinsella liked the name change as "The Dream Field" was one working title, but found the process a "colossal boredom". #HistoryGetsLIT

A classic.

It‘s #TravelTuesday

I‘ve read a few books set in Iowa- Shoeless Joe (the movie was better 😱), Kitchens of the Great Midwest, and Little Heathens.

I‘ve never been to Iowa but have always wanted to visit The Field of Dreams field.

I loved the movie Field of Dreams so I knew this book would hit the spot. Moonlight Graham so interesting. A great blend of believing in your dreams and finding contentment in the life you were given.

November Book 4/25 #LitsyLove #bookspinbingo

Decided to take advantage of our cross-country move to visit the Field of Dreams! Kinsella is one of my husband's favorite authors, and he really enjoyed the trip.

I‘m a little verklempt!

#JuneStats I only read four books in June, because that Outlander book was a chunky one. I‘m now behind on my reading challenge. I‘m gonna need a readathon. #JulyJourneys
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My thrift store finds today!

If you build it, they will come...

Field of Dreams was based on a book - who knew?

#SportsStory #MarchMadness @Eggs

#LilithJuly #DontDreamItsOver made me think of the movie Field of Dreams. An Iowa farmer hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson & other baseball players. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author (J.D. Salinger) ??

More great summer reading. This time it was the inspiration for Field of Dreams. I like the movie, and I‘m glad to have read the book.

Working on my tan lines with Shoeless Joe

The most magical and fantastical book I've ever read. I wasn't raised to believe that the Easter bunny was real, so reading this book is the honest to God first time I've ever felt like magic has existed in this world, whether it still does or not. This book is built on passion and dreams, I can only wish I was as passionate about anything as Ray kinsella is passionate about baseball.

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1. Kind of miss when we had freedom of speech
2. Shoeless Joe ➡️ Field of Dreams
3. Zero. They all died when I was pregnant 3 years ago, and we don't have the time to start over, inside or out.
4. PE, never been into sports
5. Lizards, assorted insects, black widows, kangaroo rats, ground squirrels, quayle, hawks, ravens, jackrabbits, road runners, desert foxes, coyotes, bats, bobcats, etc. It's fun here.

Evidently I'm not very picky. Every once in a while I try YA and MG, and I plan to try a few graphic novels, so even crossing those out isn't totally honest of me ... and one of my favorites is the tagged book, which is technically about a sport ... so ... really it's just romance and self-help I don't care too much for. Basically, I'll read almost anything. More #thisandthat than #thisorthat. 😁 #thisorthatgenre

Magic🌽

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Watching my favorite Cubs while reading the book that inspired 'Field of Dreams'. Yeah, can't say this is a bad Wednesday night ❤️⚾️🐻

Iowa holds a special place in my heart. My parents grew up there, my sister went to college there and met her husband there and now her family has settled there. To me, Heaven is Iowa. #currentlyreading #shoelessjoejackson #wpkinsella #fieldofdreams

Thanks Pickles!

Parts of this were beautiful. The last 1/4 was great. But for a lot of the book, I just wasn't engaged. I'm glad I read it, I didn't dislike it, but I didn't love it.

Unexpected time to myself tonight. Which means I can join in the #litsypartyofone! Reading about baseball while watching baseball. #letsgobluejays👏-👏-👏👏👏

For anyone wondering along with me last night, I found the answer in an old interview with Kinsella. Turns out, Salinger was none too happy with being portrayed in Kinsella's book. Which is why movie producers created Terrence Mann as a stand in for the Salinger character for Field of Dreams.
#nowyouknow

Current wondering: did Salinger ever read Shoeless Joe? If so, what did he think of the book/his portrayal?

My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in California, wearing shoes and an assumed name.

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And now for something completely different...

This is part of my husband's collection. I don't usually go in for sports-based narratives. I love sports, I just find that if I'm going to read about them I tend to choose non-fiction. But I told myself I would try genres I don't usually read, so I'm going to try it out.

A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church

Great baseball book

RIP WP Kinsella, age 81. Shoeless Joe is in my top five books of all time and I think it's one of the finest works of literature by a North American author. Go read it.

RIP, W.P. Kinsella
http://www.cbc.ca/books/mobile/touch/2016/09/wp-kinsella-has-died-at-the-age-of-...

#funfridayphoto Baseball is magical.

So my copy of Barbarian Days is the only sports book I have with me...but y'all have seen that one a lot! 😂 So here's two different versions of one of my favorite books, period - with a promise I'll post more proper photos for the #augustphotochallenge on Sunday! I find books about sports, even though I'm not athletic, wind up teaching me so much about life. Shoeless Joe is one of them.

So I had to dig deep for the #bookphotochallenge #augustofpages #booksandsports theme. That copy of Shoeless Joe was from a college class two decades ago! The cycling book was a gift to my husband last year. And I think I bought that Geronimo Stilton during the last Olympics. 🙂🚵🏅⚾️

Fun Friday Photo. So many amazing Canadian authors!

Hey @Liberty, my favourite ending has Shoeless Joe Jackson disappearing into the (rye?) fields with Jerry Salinger and 'the catcher' who is the narrator's late father, and maybe our father too. Blub ad infinitum.

Mr. Kinsella was kind enough to mail me a sticker with his signature.

Last one of these today! ? "Casey at the Bat" was published today in 1888, so here are four great baseball books! Shoeless Joe is an all time favorite. The only one I haven't read is "A Great and Glorious Game," but I love this piece that appears in it: http://bit.ly/1dHCWQY