LOP News: Sacramento Book Review
June 14th, 2009Pretty recently I got involved with the Sacramento Book Review publication. It (obviously) is based in Sacramento, California and they put out a monthly print magazine of book reviews. It is put together very well…and I got to be in print for the first time!
In the June edition I reviewed Home Game by Michael Lewis (page 16, first review). Michael Lewis (author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, etc…) is my all-time favorite author, so I was pretty excited to be able to read his book. The only problem I had was that I was limited to about 200 words. That is really hard for me to do, especially if I like the book. The first introduction I wrote for my review was 215 words…so I had to cut back a bit.
The entire time I was reading this book I was giggling like a little girl. Ask my wife. Once I finished it, she wanted to read it to see for herself. Then she spent the whole time giggling like a…umm…girl, I guess. Lewis is a master storyteller and I can’t wait to read whatever he comes out with next.
Below is my review from the Sacramento Book Review in its entirety:
Michael Lewis is the greatest non-fiction writer/storyteller in the history of the universe. (Even Malcolm Gladwell agrees on the back cover!) He dominates every single topic he writes about. That said, I picked up Home Game with a bit of trepidation, fearing the worse, considering it is about his children—and we all know that parents who blabber on and on about their kids can get pretty annoying.
But I was wrong.
Lewis continues his streak of incredibly clever storytelling in Home Game, which is the result of his deciding to keep a journal of his second child’s birth (and subsequent life) because he feared he was forgetting what happened with his first child.
Page after page of hilarious anecdotes make this a very fast and enjoyable read. He details his life as a dad trying to figure out how to handle two young daughters (and a son halfway through). From his failure at dressing his daughter to experiencing her first curse word to an entirely different world view once he became a father, it is a laughable, lighthearted look at the little moments parents endure every day. There are a few “sentimental” lines throughout the book, making it obvious that this book was a personal memoir that may not have been written for publication, but for himself. Fortunately for us, it has been published.
I can’t recommend this book enough. You will thoroughly enjoy this book whether you have kids or not. And once you finish Home Game, check out all of Lewis’ other books—you won’t be disappointed.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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August 2nd, 2010 at 7:35 am
[...] (but probably don’t) remember, Michael Lewis is my favorite non-fiction author. I have reviewed one recent book of his already. So there wasn’t much chance of me NOT liking this book. [...]