{"id":1931,"date":"2008-09-18T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2008\/09\/book-review-fat\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:22:21","slug":"book-review-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Fatty Batter &#8211; Michael Simkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; margin-right:20px\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=alwthecri-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0091901510&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I loved this book. It&#8217;s a perfectly balanced mix of life story, comedy, irony and occasional sadness all held together with Simmo&#8217;s long love of cricket. You don&#8217;t need to be a cricket fanatic to enjoy the book, as that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s really about &#8211; it&#8217;s just the unifying theme. That said it would be the perfect gift for the amateur cricketer in particular!<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right; margin-left:20px\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=alwthecri-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0091897491&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There are some truly laugh out loud moments and a couple of genuinely touching parts too. Overall the book is a warm and witty autobiography of a slightly awkward everyman that simply focuses on the diverse parts of his life that were cricket related, from infancy up to present day. His other book &#8220;What&#8217;s My Motivation&#8221; looks like it promises to do the same but from the point of view of his acting career. If it&#8217;s as delightful as this one then it should be a real treat, and I intend to pick it up soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this book. It&#8217;s a perfectly balanced mix of life story, comedy, irony and occasional sadness all held together with Simmo&#8217;s long love of cricket. You don&#8217;t need to be a cricket fanatic to enjoy the book, as that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s really about &#8211; it&#8217;s just the unifying theme. That said it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}