Book Review: Running The Bases (definitely not a book about baseball) by Paul Kropp

Title: Running the bases (definitely not a book about baseball)

Author: Paul Kropp

Pages: 148

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Year Published: 2005

“Alan Macklin is your average 17-year-old guy with a simple goal. He wants to get a girl. But trial and error has made one thing perfectly clear: When it comes to the opposite sex Alan keeps on striking out. Repeatedly. And painfully. He know he needs help. His friend Jeremy proves useless, so he turns to someone who might actually have some good advice.

Maggie McPherson has lots of goals for herself, including a career in law or psychology, but she needs some cash to reach them. Alan becomes the perfect client for her new consulting business. A desperate guy with a simple objective and deep pockets. For a fee, she takes on the Alan project and coaches him from girl to girl, base to base. With Maggie’s guidance, Alan builds his dating experience until he’s convinced he can get along without her coaching. But soon he’s washed up on the romantic shores, dumped by the woman of his dreams. Once again, there’s only one person who can give Alan the advice he need… but  he has to be willing to listen.”

My Rating: 3/5

This book was just ok. It wasn’t great, it wasn’t awful, just so-so. I think this book does do a lot to try to interpret the male teenage mind. And if this book is to be believed, all guys really think about is sex. And your thinking, hey Sidny any high schooler with a decent brain could tell you that, and I’d say yes you’re right. Big surprise there. Hormones are in the air. I think this is a book for guys to help them realize that maybe there should be something more important to them than getting in someone’s pants. I don’t really know though. I don’t know if there really was a point to this book at all. All in all, I think that this book was decent and included pretty interesting characters.

THANK YOU PAUL KROPP FOR LETTING US GIRLS SEE WHAT IT’S AL ABOUT!

Thanks for reading,

Love,

Sidny xoxo

Spoiler: Running The Bases (definitely not a book about baseball) by Paul Kropp

As I mentioned in the book review above I didn’t really have an opinion of this book, it was just kinda so-so. I can’t say that I’d jump to reread it. But I was able to finish it. Maybe because I found it so decent because it interesting to read what guys really think about sex. True that this does not define all boys but rather fills the stereotype. I don’t know if this is true, but I guess we’ll live and learn.

Characters:

Alan- The stereotypical geeky high school student whose never gotten any. Kinda funny around people he’s comfortable with but clueless around women. Surprise! But all the same I think that he at least wasn’t a complete jerk an wanted or seems to want more than sex.

Maggie- I did not see her going out with Alan. I thought she wanted more than that. Especially when he told her directly he wants to get laid. So hopefully she doesn’t get dreaming about forever and always. I also didn’t really think that she was dating Braden, but was giving him advice as well as Alan. Whoops!

Jeremy- What a loser?!? I could tell from the beginning he’d never been with a girl in anyway. Ass!

Rochelle- Nothing like a cheater compared to a liar. Although Alan lied, she wins the jerk award for cheating with someone else. Someone I might add, who was obviously taken!

Moments to Remember:

♥Pg. 96

“‘And you know there are a lot of diseases you can get from, well, doing it with people you don’t know…’

 ‘I’ve seen pictures,’ I told him, which was true. We had a video in our biology class that was so graphic it would make any sensible person give up sex forever. Of course, teenagers  aren’t all that sensible.”

Thanks for reading,

Love,

Sidny xoxo