I spent close to five months reading this book because I didn’t want it to end. Right now I’m in love with books that pack all of life in them. Messy and stuffed full. This one has baseball and Melville and everything I could want, including The Human Condition.
“The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.”
I wanted it to last nine seasons and two movies and then two miniseries two decades later. And I wanted The Art of Fielding, the book within the book, to be real.