In Memory of my Dad

18 years ago today my father, David Lewis Barron, lost his fight with cancer. To be honest I don't remember him reading a lot, he did own a copy of Eddie Rickenbacker's autobiography, no surprise there, Rickenbacker founded Eastern Airlines, my dad worked for EAL for over 26 years. But the reason I picked the book for today is the his favorite sport was baseball, he could have been a great ball player but when he had his tryout with the Boston Red Sox he was told he was fast but too small, at the time baseball apparently had a height requirment, who knew? Dad was 5'8". In 1946 he led the state of New Hampshire in batting partically thanks to my grandfathers baseball pitching machine. So, for my dad, a book I haven't read but I love the movie and with many thanks to wikipedia.

Shoeless Joe is a magic realist novel by W. P. Kinsella. It became much better known because of its film adaptation, Field of Dreams.


Ray Kinsella lives and farms in Iowa where he grows corn with his wife Annie and their five-year-old daughter Karin. Kinsella is obsessed with the beauty and history of American baseball, specifically the plight of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 World Series. When he hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in the midst of his corn crop in order to give his hero a chance at redemption, he blindly follows instructions. The field becomes a conduit to the spirits of baseball legends. Soon, Kinsella is off on a cross-country trip to ease the pain of another hero, the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger, as part of a journey the Philadelphia Inquirer called "not so much about baseball as it's about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_(novel)

The Surgeon

I loveTess Gerritsen’s books, the first one I read was Harvest, then I discovered Detective Rizzoli and the book The Surgeon. This suspense filled book leaves you wanting more. The evil man in this book is so demented you can’t wait to see him get his.

I realize that now there is a tv series based on her books and it's not too bad but the books are so much better!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This book chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and leads to the long-awaited final confrontation between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.

This seemed like a good time for this book as the final Harry Potter movie is about to be released July 15, 2011.

I admit to loving all of the Harry Potter books and movies, I've loved watching the characters grow and evolve.  I actually read and listened to the books on CD, Jim Dale who played Barnum on Broadway is wonderful! Give all the books a chance, then see the movies!

The Lion's Paw

This is a wonderful book by Robb White. One of my elementary school teachers, Mrs. Hitchner, read this to our class and it quickly became one of my favorites. It was out of print until 2008 when the family acquired the rights to it.


It’s the story of adventure in the waters surrounding southern Florida. Nick gets adopted and his sister Penny is left behind in the Florida orphanage they ran away and hid all night in a sailboat. They met Ben, a very good guy who was having his own troubles trying to keep his uncle from selling the boat. Ben was sure if he could find the Lion's Paw, a rare shell, his father, who had been reported missing would come back from the war, so he took the youngsters on as crew and they headed for Captiva Island in the Gulf of Mexico...