coffee and reading a book. A much better way to ease into the day.

Book Review: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger

My Most Excellent Year is classified as Kluger’s first foray into young adult fiction. And while the main characters are high school students, I didn’t find the story at all juvenile.

The main characters are Boston teenagers TC and Augie, best friends who have classified themselves as brothers since they were six. Enter Ale, a beautiful girl who TC falls hard for. She has just moved to Boston from Washington, DC where her father served as a Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.

Each of the main characters has a part in telling the story that takes them all the waypartner of the firm who wants to beat Billy at all costs.

Amazon Prime #2 – The Man In The High Castle

This series is set in 1962 and is based on Philip Dick’s book by the same name. Classified as alternative history, viewers are taken into a world where the Axis powers won World War II. The former US is now ruled on the East Coast by Nazi Germany and on the West Coast by the Japanese with a small neutral zone in the middle. My favorite character is Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith played by Rufus Sewell. Smith is the highest ranking Nazi in the U.S. and from the flashbacks, you get the impression that he was a U. S. Army officer during the war. On one hand, he is