Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Okay, as I’ve said before, I’ve always loved baseball, it’s in my blood, but I have to say that what really made me fall in love with it forever was by watching Little League games. I was never very good at sports myself. I was the girl picking flowers in the field at the soccer... Continue Reading →
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” – Julia Child I have loved the lion’s share of Kate McMurray’s previous work. With one exception, they have all been four or five star rated by me. That’s why when I got the opportunity to review... Continue Reading →
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” – Julia Child I have loved the lion’s share of Kate McMurray’s previous work. With one exception, they have all been four or five star rated by me. That’s why when I got the opportunity to review... Continue Reading →
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” – Voltaire Brooklyn, New York, 1878—it was an exceedingly dangerous time to be a gay man. In fact, for Theodore Cummings Brill and George Washington Cutler it was downright deadly. A crime that held all the earmarks of a double homicide was dismissed... Continue Reading →
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” – Voltaire Brooklyn, New York, 1878—it was an exceedingly dangerous time to be a gay man. In fact, for Theodore Cummings Brill and George Washington Cutler it was downright deadly. A crime that held all the earmarks of a double homicide was dismissed... Continue Reading →
After reading Joshua Martino’s Fontana, the outstanding fictional tale of a professional baseball player who is outed by a journalist and then falls victim to the aftermath of that invasion of his privacy, I was both hesitant and tempted to read Kate McMurray’s Out in the Field. Where Fontana does absolutely nothing to romanticize the... Continue Reading →
After reading Joshua Martino’s Fontana, the outstanding fictional tale of a professional baseball player who is outed by a journalist and then falls victim to the aftermath of that invasion of his privacy, I was both hesitant and tempted to read Kate McMurray’s Out in the Field. Where Fontana does absolutely nothing to romanticize the... Continue Reading →
”Tis one thing to be tempted…another thing to fall.” - William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure (Act II, Scene I) Lead Us Not is a scary-tale. No, not in a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kind of way, but in a life-seems-to-change-overnight kind of way. You meet the man of your dreams, fall in love, move to New York... Continue Reading →
”Tis one thing to be tempted…another thing to fall.” - William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure (Act II, Scene I) Lead Us Not is a scary-tale. No, not in a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kind of way, but in a life-seems-to-change-overnight kind of way. You meet the man of your dreams, fall in love, move to New York... Continue Reading →
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