Julia W. reviewed If you love baseball and fantasy you'll love this book on 9/17/2008 + 32 more book reviews

6/29/08 Like a long, leisurely S-L-O-W game of summer baseball, I felt each and every one of the pages of this book. Sometimes I nearly gave up, got another book, changed the channel. The book is ultimately satisfying, but like its thematic baseball it is lugubrious.

Ethan Feld, a boy who doesn't like baseball, and his best friend Jennifer T. who lives for baseball go on a long, long road trip through the worlds of faery to stop Coyote from ending the world. Sure, for my taste, Gaiman did it better in American Gods and Anansi Boys, but he did it without baseball. And Charles de Lint also treads similar mythology, but generally he doesn't threaten 'Ragged Rock.'

I'm going through a Chabon kick, all started by the brilliant Yiddish Policemen's Union. I prefer that novel and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to this.

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