Pitching for Sanity A Nervous Man Journey edition by Mike Reuther Literature Fiction eBooks
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Bill Barrister is riddled with almost crippling anxiety, the kind of nervous condition that prevents him from having any kind of normal life. Once a teenage pitching phenom, he finds temporary calm and comfort from throwing a baseball every day in the backyard of his boyhood home where he lives after spending twenty years in the military. When a free-spirited boyhood friend lures him on a cross-country road trip, Bill is sprung from the malaise of his small town existence and off on a reluctant journey of self-discovery and of his past.
Pitching for Sanity A Nervous Man Journey edition by Mike Reuther Literature Fiction eBooks
What a great story! I loved Mike Reuther's Pitching for Sanity. He takes you on a road trip and the book keeps you engaged from beginning to end. The characters and story line are very well developed, but leave enough room for your own imagination to add a little bit to it. I always love it when a fiction book includes a little something that will make you think about your own life and your own road trip through this life. I am inspired by this book!Product details
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Pitching for Sanity A Nervous Man Journey edition by Mike Reuther Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
A road trip that sort of didn't go anywhere. I really gave it no stars. The writer puts words together well but didn't seem to really have anything to say.
In Pitching for Sanity, Mike Reuther returns to a familiar theme in his books, malaise and small town life. This time it's an anxiety ridden Air Force retiree whose obsessive thoughts and panic attacks have made life almost unmanageable for Bill Barrister. He has become the blue collar small town "character" who is often seen by neighbors throwing baseballs against a backstop of hay. His wife has left him because of his anxiety, and he lives on his Air force pension alternating between drinking heavily or abstention. But alcohol, and even more so his baseball ritual, helps as a coping mechanism.
Then he fights off his fears and decides to join his carefree friend from youth on a rode trip to no where in particular-just cross country. While hating it at times, but also enjoying the liberation, Bill must make choices; either retreat into his obsessive rituals as a safe heaven, or bust out of his bubble and enjoy life. Maybe, just maybe the guilt and anxiety of his past can be overcome and life can begin anew at age forty three.
It isn’t often that a book will combine the themes of baseball and a mental health condition but this short novel by Mike Reuther does just that. While there isn’t a lot of baseball in the story, it does play a key role as pitching baseballs is how the main character, Bill Barrister, deals with his anxiety. The condition has affected Bill enough that it ended his marriage and has affected his ability to work or do many other simple things that most people do.
A former pitching phenom whose tryout with a major-league team was a disaster, Bill was a career Air Force man where a colleague’s suicide left him shattered. That is one of the many events that led to his anxiety and each one is addressed in the story with a complete picture – a trait that illustrates the fine writing done by Reuther throughout the book.
Bill ends up leaving his Pennsylvania hometown to go on a road trip to California with his friend Godfrey. There are many twists in this journey which leads them to Texas where Bill learns a lot about his friend, a woman from their hometown whose son saw Bill throwing the baseballs, and also himself and how he can cope with his anxiety in other methods. The ending of the story was a bit surprising to me, but it is open enough so that the reader can draw his or her own conclusions. That fits the rest of the book – detailed enough to illustrate the situation, but open enough for the reader to fill in the blanks. A good quick read for those who like stories of self-discovery.
I wish to thank Mr. Reuther for providing a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
This is a story of life lived, life missed and life ahead. When Bill, a man with anxiety issues, is asked by an old friend to take a road trip, he reluctantly goes and things he never expected happen. I like the character of Bill and the baseball references, that relate to Bill's past and missed opportunities. This is an interesting, well written story that will take readers on a journey into a man's life.
A flowing novel with a true narrative power lying in the characters and how they develop together. We all have our "baseball into a hay bale" and we all know a Godfrey for better or for worse. Aside from being a relatable story to most, the relationship between Bill and Godfrey shows to be more complex than first thought. Godfrey seems to be everything Bill isn't and the two divulge a lot about each other as they drive to the epicenter of Bill's troubled life....Texas. I couldn't figure out their relationship until a very meaningful scene where Godfrey catches some of Bill's pitches, despite knowing the pain. The two move the story into deep, often comic, significance and the reader gets to develop right along with it. Excited to see what these two get into and how Bill develops as a person in the next book.
What a great story! I loved Mike Reuther's Pitching for Sanity. He takes you on a road trip and the book keeps you engaged from beginning to end. The characters and story line are very well developed, but leave enough room for your own imagination to add a little bit to it. I always love it when a fiction book includes a little something that will make you think about your own life and your own road trip through this life. I am inspired by this book!
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