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Hold fast by blue balliett5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() So read on if you like, but bear in mind that these two facts are at the forefront of this very review. Fact number two is that when I am disappointed in a book it makes me even more critical of the title than would be normal for me. Balliett’s in the past and they were not to my taste. So that’s what I’m going to do with Blue Balliett’s book Hold Fast. You have to own up right from the start to what makes you tick as a reviewer. Maybe a poorly constructed sports novel burned a small hole in my soul and that’s why this particular baseball novel isn’t ringing true to me. Maybe I was forced to read Stuart Little when I was a child and that’s why I’ve never liked animal fantasies. When I pick up a book for children I have to cut through a thick swath of issues infecting my brain that may have little to nothing to do with the book in hand. ![]() I honestly don’t think you can be a reviewer without being honest about your own personal prejudices first. ![]()
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