A woman who just started reading the book told me she was balling after reading the introduction. I asked her if she was bored to tears, and she reassured me it was because she felt it was so touching. Nice getting that kind of feedback!
Showing posts with label gentle giant; Montrose grammar school; Swede. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
"Best of 2010"
Kirkus Discoveries, an international review house of new authors, named Swede "Best Biography" in it's Best of 2010" rankings. Very exciting for this new author. The review itself, attached in my previous post, was wonderful (if I do say so myself) and a nice surprise.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Word has gotten out about the book to old friends from as early as grammar school. Guys I haven't communicated with for years (decades in some cases) have reached out via email, and the comments are pretty identical...they absolutely love the reminders of our childhoods growing up in South Orange, and in particular, our own little universe that was the Montrose Grammar School playground. The modest school grounds is where we played softball, hardball, touch football, stickball, basketball, flipped cards, and just hung out. We argued over the Yankees and Giants, Mantle and Mays, and all other things related to sports. The name-dropping has been hilarious; I'm talking about people we haven't seen, in some cases, since the late 1950's, and yet we remember them as if we were with them last week. We've all remembered Gene Carcia, a playground star and one of the leaders, who tragically died at age 13 when he took his mother's car and crashed into a tree just a few blocks from the playground he thrived in.
All have said they read the book in one day after receiving it. I think it's proof of what a great childhood setting we had. All remember Swede so well, as he often would join us in the playground and "compete" with us. All heartily agree that "gentle giant" is the perfect description for him.
These communications, which are coming from Maine to Florida, are soooo enjoyable to read. They are great reminders of how good we had it!
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