When I proposed this book club to our fearless editor, Matt Lyons, I had Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert in mind. In fact, I had it on my bookshelf, the result of an impulse buy based on GoodReads recommendations. So when I got the greenlight for the book club and then the readers picked Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert as the first book, well, I was pretty happy.
Perhaps I had hyped the book up too much, though. I tend to do this with things. I heard about Chicago-area restaurant Portillo’s for years, building it to mythical status in my mind, and then I had it and.