Monthly Archives: March 2010

Baseball America Super Register 2010: a short review

The web makes a book like this less valuable every year, as virtually all of the information here is available at places like Baseball Reference and the soon-to-be-rolled-out SABR Encyclopedia (which I’m helping build–take that as a disclaimer). But it’s still fun to page through this book, and find interesting and unexpected things. Nicely done, in most ways.

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Invasion by Julian Stockwell: a review

There’s more story here than the earlier LT reviewers seem to acknowledge. For maybe the fourth time in the series, Kydd takes stock of his life and decides to gain control of his destiny. This time the effort seems more convincing, though I confess it’s a bit rushed. He has a serious intellectual disagreement with Renzi; before they’ve mainly disagreed about social issues, with Renzi pretty much an unquestioned conscience on morality (except when he goes silly on us). The encounter with Robert Fulton is both entertaining and frustrating, and a fairly convincing portrait.

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Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome: a short review

Evidence that “modern” isn’t so modern as we think. Among other things. Funny in the same way Bill Bryson’s funny. Of course, not everyone likes Bryson, either.

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