Jury Is Out On John Grisham’s Baseball Novel

June 25, 2012 by Gabriel Schechter · Leave a Comment

“At long last,” it says on the back cover of John Grisham’s new novel,Calico Joe, “America’s favorite storyteller takes on America’s favorite pastime.” Calico Joe is a good story, smoothly and movingly told, although after page 19 I was able to predict most of what would happen the rest of the way. A bigger tipoff appears one […]

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Review of John Grisham’s Baseball Novel, Calico Joe

April 12, 2012 by Eddie Gilley · 6 Comments

Calico Joe is the newest novel by my favorite fiction author John Grisham. It arrived on my ipad late on Tuesday afternoon. I finished it by Wednesday night and most of it was finished on a trip to see our Gator softball team take on UCF a couple of hours away. We lost the game […]

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