Review roundup, May 14

May 14, 2012

♦ The London Free Press (Ontario) published this piece on Calico Joe. Upshot:

Calico Joe has home run power. The baseball portions, particularly the first 100 pages or so, are more delicious than a Fenway frank.

But Grisham saves his heaviest hitting in the 198-page Calico Joe for the second half, where push comes to shove on the deeper themes of redemption and family relationships.

♦ The Memphis Commercial Appeal gave us this on on Tim Wendel’s Summer of ’68 with a most unusual introduction: “Unlike some who have been born and raised in the Christian faith, I cannot pinpoint the day Jesus came into my life. I can recall the exact day baseball did…”

 

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Tagged as: Calico Joe, Detroit Tigers, John Grisham, London Free Press, St. Louis Cardinals, Tom Wendel

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