Hi everyone!  If you like baseball and food and have memories of growing up in the 60s and 70s, check this book out:  "Almost True:  A Memoir Of Family, Food, And Baseball" by Molly O'Neill!  What a great book...I am thoroughally enjoying it. 

Molly O'Neill was the oldest, and the only girl, out of a family of 6 siblings.  This book has gotten rave comments by authors Anthony Bourdain, Frank McCourt, and Michael Ruhlman.  Sorry, but my copy will be a keeper! 

Has anyone else read this book?  I highly recommend it.

I have it on my TBR.  Didn't know if I'd like it because I don't like baseball, but it looked sort of good.  I will have to give it a second look - thanks!

Dang!  I've searched all different ways through advanced search, and that doesn't come up!  But it sure does when I check Amazon!

Here's the link for PBS: http://tinyurl.com/2el7ou

Thanks for the recommendation.  Memoirs isn't a genre I normally go for, but I'm a big time baseball fan.  I think I might enjoy this.

I added it to my WL.  I love baseball and was the only girl on my team growing up.

Thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you for the link!  I've now WL'd it, as I do just about anything Lyn recommends.  Bonnie, too!

Oh, come on -- my WL is long enough -- I didn't need to add more!!  But I did.

This sounds like JUST my kind of thing -- and if you haven't read them, may I recommend Growing Up at the Table and Comfort Me With Apples (in that order), the two volumes of Ruth Reichl's memoirs.  Wow, I loved those books!

The exact title is Mostly True........

I couldn't find it until I searched by author! Thanks! It does look interesting!!!!

I never heard of this book but it sounds really interesting, especially since I love baseball! I wishlisted it too!

I am now reading Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table.  The sequel is on it's way.  I am really enjoying this, and admire greatly, that at last, an author of a memoir  right at the start admits her memory of events may be a bit askew, but what the heck, as they are her memories, that is her life!  A whole new slant on things, eh?

Thanks for recommending these.

 This author is a terrific food writer. I'm not much of a baseball fan, but given the recommendation and her past work, I'll check on this. Thanks!

Becki,

I just finished A Girl Named Zippy.  It was GREAT!!  Laugh out loud funny in some places and so very sweet. 

- Tracy

I love the Ruth Reichl books!  I just read "Garlic And Sapphires", her latest, this month.  VERY GOOD!  I've also read her other 2 memoirs.

Oh, there is a third!!!  I must add it right now.  Just finished the first two and loved them...the Reichl's!

Going to add to my WL.  I decided yesterday that the 60s-70s (and 50s but I dont remember them as well) were the best times.  My nieces and nephews and their children are going through situations I never even heard of back then...................how time has changed.  Life was so much simpler and easier and less stressful back then