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Review by Gideon7778 -- The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song" by Brian Kaufman.]
The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song by Brian Kaufman is an amazing fictional novel. It is made up of great twists and turns involving baseball. Personally, am not a baseball fan but this book was a game changer and I enjoyed reading it.
For more than a decade, Parker Westfall has been struggling to get to the major league of baseball but his efforts bored no fruits. He has been grinding out a career playing baseball in the minor league and his days were coming to an end. Parker gets a call from an independent baseball team called Fort Collins Miners asking him to join their team. Even though this was below his expectation he had to take the offer since he was desperate and this was his last chance playing in the season. As the story continues to unfold, we meet Courtney Morgan who also join Miners. She was so determined to break into the man’s world. Courtney was hardworking and promising maybe she wanted to justify the phrase “What a man can do a woman can do better.” Unfortunately, the team had a mean coach named Grady O’ Connor who didn’t want to help. This gave Courtney a hard time during training that she had to struggle a lot. Parker was kind-hearted and he came up to help. He was like a mentor. The story further develops displaying team work as the character work towards achieving their dream of being successful that season.
What I like about this book is that the author went an extra mile and explained details about baseball without interfering with the plot of the story. This gave an easy understanding of the book especially to non-baseball fans. The author is also good in developing characters since he showed how the characters began in the minor league and how they progressed. Kaufman also did a good job in using deep descriptive language and dialogues in writing the book, this made the baseball scenes realistic and this creates a mental picture of the series of the events happening on the readers mind hence the book is well understood.
This book is interesting though I disliked the fact that the author left a lose ending whereby the book ends immediately after the season ended. The author should have shown clearly how the effort put by the players practicing for the season paid off. Furthermore, I also feel like the tittle of the book does not rhyme with the storyline.
This book is well edited since it has no grammatical or spelling error. Therefore I rate it 4 out of 4 stars. I would recommend it to people who are chasing after their dreams, people who love fiction tales and also sports loves.
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The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song by Brian Kaufman is an amazing fictional novel. It is made up of great twists and turns involving baseball. Personally, am not a baseball fan but this book was a game changer and I enjoyed reading it.
For more than a decade, Parker Westfall has been struggling to get to the major league of baseball but his efforts bored no fruits. He has been grinding out a career playing baseball in the minor league and his days were coming to an end. Parker gets a call from an independent baseball team called Fort Collins Miners asking him to join their team. Even though this was below his expectation he had to take the offer since he was desperate and this was his last chance playing in the season. As the story continues to unfold, we meet Courtney Morgan who also join Miners. She was so determined to break into the man’s world. Courtney was hardworking and promising maybe she wanted to justify the phrase “What a man can do a woman can do better.” Unfortunately, the team had a mean coach named Grady O’ Connor who didn’t want to help. This gave Courtney a hard time during training that she had to struggle a lot. Parker was kind-hearted and he came up to help. He was like a mentor. The story further develops displaying team work as the character work towards achieving their dream of being successful that season.
What I like about this book is that the author went an extra mile and explained details about baseball without interfering with the plot of the story. This gave an easy understanding of the book especially to non-baseball fans. The author is also good in developing characters since he showed how the characters began in the minor league and how they progressed. Kaufman also did a good job in using deep descriptive language and dialogues in writing the book, this made the baseball scenes realistic and this creates a mental picture of the series of the events happening on the readers mind hence the book is well understood.
This book is interesting though I disliked the fact that the author left a lose ending whereby the book ends immediately after the season ended. The author should have shown clearly how the effort put by the players practicing for the season paid off. Furthermore, I also feel like the tittle of the book does not rhyme with the storyline.
This book is well edited since it has no grammatical or spelling error. Therefore I rate it 4 out of 4 stars. I would recommend it to people who are chasing after their dreams, people who love fiction tales and also sports loves.
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This one sounds like the perfect book for baseball lovers or those with an interest in the same. I'm also not a baseball fanatic, but I think I'll try this book out. Thanks for the insightful review.
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