My Darling Boy
A Novel

Overly packed with characters with oddball names, which I suppose it meant to make them quirky but in the end is merely annoying and a distraction from the very thin story of a father trying to track down and save his drug addicted son.......more

Just finished My Darling Boy. It’s exquisitely written and heartbreaking about a father trying desperately to save his drug addicted son. What a story of enduring love and hope. Not a fun read but I couldn’t put it down. Be forewarned. Read it when you can handle the despair and anguish.......more

A father goes on a quest to find and rescue his once-promising, drug-addicted, 20-something son. Of course, the problem is that he has to want to be saved, and this is a young man who is truly committed to his addiction. I went into this without having read much about it other than critical praise,......more

Easy Swing This novel deserves an award because it is so—well—written. Readers are with many memorable characters close up, but one they see only from a distance, and briefly is Wyatt Tyler, rookie shortstop of the Brown Bats. Like the novel’s third person omniscient narrator, Olney Kartheizer, who c......more

via my blog: [URL not allowed] 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕? My Darling Boy is an interesting read, one that is full of lively people, often misfits, trying to get through life while attempting to hold themselves and others together. It is about k......more