May 2, 2018 TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME

I LOATHE baseball season. It's my least favorite sport. I don't mean professional baseball--I'M TALKING LITTLE LEAGUE. The games are TORTOROUS--like watching paint dry--AND they last forever!!!! Can't we put a 2 hour CAP on these games--I have a life you know. Seriously--when they're CHANGING PITCHERS--in the first inning--you KNOW it's gonna be a LONG night. And some of the coaches are so SERIOUS TOO. Listen pal--when you're up 18-0--you really don't need to STEAL HOME. Haven't you ALREADY humiliated the other team enough??  Not kidding. The worse thing about it though is that the teams are so UNFAIR. A few of the teams look like they could probably win the Little League World Series while the rest of the teams couldn't compete against THE BAD NEWS BEARS. Who picks the teams?? Isn't it supposed to be about the kids???  Too many grown up living vicariously through their kids--THAT'S FOR SURE. It's no wonder so many kids are leaving America's favorite pastime for Lacrosse. 

Speaking of vicariously, Lincoln, one of the main characters in Rainbow Rowell's, wonderful, funny novel Attachments is definitely living that way as an Internet Security Officer for a local newspaper. 

Set in a small town in Nebraska in 1999, Lincoln has just started his new job at The Courier where he imagines he will be protecting the internet from hackers. Instead, he realizes all too soon that his job is to simply monitor--read other people's email to make sure they are obeying company rules. Beth and Jennifer are co-workers and friends at The Courier who ignore the policies and email each other throughout the day. They gossip, share personal information, virtually tell each other everything through email. As security officer, it's Lincoln's job to turn them in but he becomes intrigued with their lives, and the more he reads, the more he starts to fall in love with Beth even though he has never seen her and she already has a boyfriend. Find out what happens when Beth learns he's been reading her emails?? What will happen between Beth, Lincoln, and her boyfriend Chris? Find out when you read this quirky, romantic novel.  It's about 300 pages or a 3 mile run that will speak to every romantic bone in your body.