Ashley Marie 's Reviews > Shoeless Joe

October 2016 read with the Baseball Book Club

This book, I discovered, is an extremely visceral one. It touches all of your senses as you read: you can feel the grass and dirt under your feet, smell the worn leather of a baseball glove, see the lights come on in the stadium, and barely make out Shoeless Joe as he walks toward you from that door by the cornfield. All just by reading.

And what a read it was. Normally, a book this size (224 pages) I should've finished in two days. Took a bit longer than planned because a) real life and b) I really enjoyed taking my time and savoring it. I think the phrase 'magical realism' was invented to describe this book. If you haven't read it (or at least watched Field of Dreams), even if you're not a baseball or sports person, please give it a shot. It's such a beautiful story.