And Now for Something Completely Different

Left Out is totally different from Serafina.  But I loved it just as much.   I love Tim Green.  I really do.  I had a lot of questions while reading this.  There were just a couple of things that made me wonder.  It got me thinking a lot about the cochlear implant that Landon has and the varied ways in which the implant is viewed by members of the deaf community.  I know that the book would have been way too long to go into all of that, but it did get me thinking about it.  Also Landon use any form of sign language (though I did get a little hint, but maybe I was reading into it, that his dad and he probably would have used it if the mom wasn't so set on not using it.)
I looked around a little and found that members of the CI community really praised the book, just wondered what others in the D/deaf community think. 

2.5 SPOILERS, kinda.

I really always feel bad when I give a book less than 3 stars.  I mean, I know that is ridiculous.  But I just feel like I could never write a book that could be published and so who am I to give someone a less than 3, you know?  And sometimes books just aren't my cup of tea and that doesn't make them less-than-4 worthy.  But Baseball Genius was a 3 until the end.  It just ended way too fast for me, you know?  It was chopped off.
I saw Tim Green and Derek Jeter on the CBS Mornings News promoting the book and so that is why I bought it.  Tim Green has a whole bunch of books and I really enjoyed Football Genius.  Derek Jeter has written some kids books, too.  But I have not read those.  I will have to see what they are like!

Once again, just because you HAVE to read something, doesn't mean it is going to be terrible

Also just because someone famous wrote a book, that doesn't mean it is going to be terrible either.  Football Genius, the first in the Football Genius series is by Tim Green played for the Atlanta Falcons and did all kinds of other sports-stuff before writing books.

I figured that I had to read this book because I had never read any of them and they are super popular and if they were any good, I thought maybe I could recommend them to folks looking for sports books, of which I have read very, very little.  

This is one I can recommend for sure.  Good story.  I really liked the main character, Troy.

I didn't like the LOVE part, but it was so small that I was able to deal and I think that people who don't like love parts will be able to deal as well.  Maybe I was just listening to it on a day when I was down with love.  

I probably will read the next one, but I have so many others to read right now!