Choosing Up Sides

More than five years ago, I reviewed The Boy Who Saved Baseball by this author, who is totally not the actor from Three's Company. In that review, I said that I planned to read more of his books in the near future. I was true to my word, but only to the extent that I have had this book and anoth......more

Absolutely great book! I was completely surprised. I started to read it to get it off my shelf, prepared to put it down when I was swept away in a marvelous story about a boy courageously and morally trying to make sense out of the spiritual abuse he is suffering. The main character was so believabl......more

While the allegory of this story is not without merit, the overall book fell flat. The harshness of the adult characters made it so that determining an appropriate age group for this book difficult.......more

Marcel Droguett Choosing Up Sides 1/30/2019 Main character Luke Bledsoe is born in a priest's family as a left-hander. However, his father believes that the left side is the side of Satan, left is the side of all evil, and forbids him from using it at all. He has constantly been forced to move from town......more