I brought this book to my daughter‘s last year but didn‘t read it. However, I‘m enjoying it now.
I brought this book to my daughter‘s last year but didn‘t read it. However, I‘m enjoying it now.
I should have looked at the tags before I picked this up, because “Christian fiction” is so totally not my jam. So that‘s on me. But I still thought this suffered from unrealistic dialogue (the 11-year-old girl talks like she‘s 40) and the writing style was so simplistic and juvenile I actually stopped to check whether it was also tagged as YA. Not for me. 😖 I‘m happy to send to someone who thinks it may be for them, though —let me know!
Book 5 for #14Books14Weeks . The All American by Susie Finkbeiner is fantastic feel good historical fiction. The setting is Detroit, Michigan, the year, 1952. A Best Selling "All American" author/father, a teenage girl/daughter with dreams of playing the All American sport, Baseball. Susie paints beautiful word pictures with fantastic descriptions and uses verbiage authentic to the decade. With fabulous family dynamics (cont in comments)...
Themes: Family, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), A League of Their Own
This was very well written and checked all the boxes of things that I find interesting: the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and it was all centered around a family from Detroit (always a fan of midwestern settings 😊). This was a perfect summer read 😎 Five stars & I‘d love a sequel!
Nothing makes the first day back to work after a lonnnnnnggggg holiday weekend better than getting #bookmail AND free stickers 😍 I cannot wait to dive into this amazing sounding story! ⚾️🌭🇺🇸