My favorite book ever!

Last fall, I would read "Wait Till Next Year" every morning while eating breakfast. I didn't want to put it down. As a result, I had to rush to catch the bus. When the book ended (entirely too soon!) I felt a void in my life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a fantastic historian. Her other works include books on FDR, JFK, and other important figures of our time. In "Wait Till Next Year," she turns her attention to HER OWN history, and the result is a fascinating, moving, compelling memoir of her childhood in Rockville Center, NY (on Long Island). Her detailed writing style made me feel as if I were living her life. The anecdotes in this book are so interesting that I feel as if I experienced them along with the author. But the great thing about Doris Kearns Goodwin's writing style is that she never goes into SO MUCH detail that the reader is bored.

While a substantial part of the book focuses on baseball and the author's love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, you do not have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this book. Baseball forms the basis of her relationship with her father and is, along with Catholicism, the most important force in her life.

This wonderful book will make you laugh, smile, and cry. Everyone should read it.