Do You like book Let Me Finish (2007)?
Roger Angell is one of the New Yorker writers whose columns in that magazine are pieces that I never miss. Even when he's writing about baseball (although I wouldn't read a full-length book on the subject), he is captivating and expresses his thoughts as clearly and cleanly as his stepfather, E.B. White. He is wry and funny, and someone you could easily imagine sitting and talking with easily, hanging onto every word.This book of memoirs--many, if not all, columns from the New Yorker--covers vignettes of his childhood and remote adulthood, war and career experiences, with some bits of New Yorker life thrown in. He captures a time long gone by, and t is never, EVER dull, and only makes me hope that all of his columns will someday be collected into a single volume, although this is a good start.
—Leslie
My 2 cents: compelling memoir by the New Yorker's longtime fiction editor and baseball writer. Packed with insights and moving recollections - I couldn't put it down. The best $1.50 I've ever spent at Amazon (an undeserved fate for this book, to be sent to the remainder table, but it's my gain - and someday I'll read it again). "Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around."
—David
The author is clearly an excellent writer with a heritage of writers in the family. There were many good parts to the book and some seemed to drag on. When he wrote about his childhood and family I enjoyed the book. But when he in one long chapter discussed many writers he knew and associated with I became disinterested. My favorite part of the book was learning that his step-father was E.B. White and more information than the usual book jacket gives. And, although divorced his parents gave their children much time and opportunities.
—Jan
