1. Home Run - eBookThis product is an eBook
    Travis Thrasher
    David C Cook / 2013 / ePub
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  1. Mrs ARS
    4 Stars Out Of 5
    Realistic
    May 9, 2013
    Mrs ARS
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This review was written for Home Run.
    This book was a realistic look at addiction and anger. I felt for Cory, even though I do not have an alcohol addiction, I definitely saw him using the same excuses I use for other areas in my life. This was a well told story and I felt that I was walking the path with him. This is another great book that shows how our sin does not just affect us, but others all around us as well. The sins of the father cycle needed to be broken in this story and I am glad that Cory woke up before he repeated history with his own son. I also liked that this story showed that just because Cory become a Christian that everything did not magically get better. He still struggled with his sin. Just like we all do. Very realistic portrayal. I received this book from bookfun.org for my honest opinion.
  2. Jen Pen
    Midwest
    4 Stars Out Of 5
    Great movie novelization
    April 29, 2013
    Jen Pen
    Midwest
    Quality: 5
    Value: 4
    Meets Expectations: 4
    This review was written for Home Run.
    Cory Brand returns to his hometown after being suspended from his Major League Baseball Team. As part of his suspension, Cory finds himself coaching a little league baseball team and attending a faith-based recovery program. The experience in his hometown forces him to confront his past and find the road to healing in the future.

    A PENNY FOR MY THOUGHTS:

    Travis Thrasher provides the reader with an in-depth view of Cory Brand. Thrasher uses a narrative structure that acts as a window into Cory's past and present by using flashbacks that act as a stream of consciousness narration thus allowing for the reader to experience the inner thoughts of Cory.

    The result of the narrative techniques used by Thrasher is an understanding of Cory's struggles to overcome addiction. A reader unfamiliar with struggles such as Cory's quickly becomes empathetic to his situation, causing one to marvel at God's grace. Due to the inclusion of a recovery program that is faith based, the story retains a hopeful tone although the material explores difficult topics. Although the reader may anticipate the ending, it does not diminish the effect of the book. The book engages, enlightens and envelopes the reader with the main message being God's redemption.

    RATING: 4 (OUT OF 5) pennies

    *I received a complimentary copy of Home Run from David C Cook for my honest review*
  3. jbarr5
    RI
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    4 Stars Out Of 5
    truly a home run
    April 25, 2013
    jbarr5
    RI
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 4
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This review was written for Home Run.
    Home Run by Travis Thrasher

    This book is based on a movie that I've never seen but I think the book has a lot more details and feelings described then what you'd get from an onscreen showing.

    Cory, the oldest and Clay the youngest are raised in OK and their dad drinks heavily and hopes one day they will hit the baseball he throws at the barn and sometimes them. He has beaten them til Cory is old enough to get away and is able to join a baseball team.

    He is a really good hitter and he tips the bottle a lot, just like his father. He has a manager, Helene that gets him out of many scrapes but some things she can't undo and he is forced to pay the price for his own actions.

    There was no reason for him to hit the batboy because on his way to 3rd base he neglected to touch it. He ends up back in OK to make amends with Clay and in the Corvette they crash, after he's been drinking all morning. The only way to right this wrong is for him to coach his brother's baseball team.

    He's been fined and needs to go on a 12 step program soon as he's also on a 8week suspension from the game.

    There are alternating chapters where we learn of how they were raised and berated and the next chapters are about his baseball life with chapter names relating to baseball.

    Glad I got this book to read because spring is when I start thinking of baseball, years gone by and marvel at the game playing involved.

    Especially like all the baseball technical terminology.

    The story also follows Emma who was his high school sweetheart. She did move on and marry another, had a baby and the father died in the war.

    All Cory can think about is Emma, he had left her pregnant, avoiding the draft and going to play college baseball instead.

    The 12 step program is mandatory meetings at night where there are principles to be learned from the minister.

    Emma is hiding secrets and Cory needs to deal with his past first...

    I received this book from The Bookclub Network www.bookfun.org via David Cook Publications in exchange for my honest opinion.
  4. msharry
    Georgia
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    4 Stars Out Of 5
    redemption
    April 22, 2013
    msharry
    Georgia
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This review was written for Home Run.
    There is nothing to like about Cory. He is a crude, womanizing drunk whose baseball career is spiraling down as his alcoholism leads him to regularly lose all control. The only positive thing that could be said about him is that as a child he protected his younger brother, Clay, by unflinchingly taking their father's drunken abuse. However, as the book jacket states, "No one is beyond the healing of God". Forced by his major league team to enter a recovery program and coach a little league baseball team, Cory is about as hopeless a case as could be found.

    This is not a pretty story, but it rings true. The reader experiences Cory's thoughts, excuse-making, and deeply-felt pain as he persists in ignoring the train wreck of his life and denying that he "has a problem". There is no preaching, but there is no doubt in the reader's mind that Cory is spiritually and emotionally empty as he wallows in his self-imposed misery. It is in this state that he finds himself back in his boyhood hometown, begrudgingly attending Celebrate Recovery meetings, a Christian-based twelve step program. In spite of himself, he finds a joy in his job of coaching the Little League team and thrills to their simple love of the game.

    The other characters in the book are relegated to secondary roles through most of the book..This reflects Cory's self-absorption. He is the center of his own universe and won't let anyone else in. How this mess of a person finds redemption is what makes this story and its ending so satisfying. It should give any reader hope that if Cory can be forgiven and changed, so could anyone.

    I received this book through bookfun.org in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed are solely mine.
  5. Britt98
    Grand Prairie, TX
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    4 Stars Out Of 5
    A book that shows just how much God can heal
    April 11, 2013
    Britt98
    Grand Prairie, TX
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    Quality: 4
    Value: 4
    Meets Expectations: 4
    This review was written for Home Run.
    Home Run follows the downfall and eventual redemption of a major league baseball star. Cory Brand appears to have it all. But he struggles with addiction and anger. He ends up in a recovery program back where everything started for him, his home town. The town where he suffered abuse, became a ball player, found love and eventually ran from responsibility he didn't feel ready for. In this book, you follow Cory's journey of recovery, his acceptance of God in his life and you see him open his eyes and his heart to let love back into his life. This was a very enjoyable read and I look forward to seeing the movie it is based on. I recieved this book for free from bookfun.org in exchange for my honest review.
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