REVIEWS

"I enjoyed Reed City Boy so much ... Some great looks at the past, done with such thoroughness and honesty, and topped with a large helping of humor."

James Vosper
author of the beloved Bois Blanc Island memoir, Island Boyhood

"I think I had that same winter coat (pictured on p. 33). And those glasses look way too familiar! ... We share much the same background ... [Reed City Boy] is evocative of a lost world."

Michael Dirda
Senior Editor of The Washington Post Book World,
and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the midwest memoir,
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

"For anyone who has ever thought about living in a small town - where most people, it's true, do know your name - Tim Bazzett has written the perfect book. For those who grew up in small towns, in places like Reed City (where I was born), this tale is a reminder of those lost spring afternoons when the redwing blackbirds called down by the river, and the smell of the creosote bridge was in the air, with your whole life ahead of you. This book is funny, poignant, and blazingly honest."

Doug Stanton
author of NY Times bestseller, In Harm's Way

"A good, honest and straighforward portrait ... A touching story."

Ronald Jager
author of Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm,
a modern classic of country memoirs

"The best autobiography I have read in years ... Paints a picture with a fine artist's brush ... Reed City Boy has universal appeal [and} could easily become a best-seller."

Dr. Maury Dean
Pop Musicologist and author of Rock and Roll Gold Rush

"Bazzett manages to capture the magic and mystery as well as all the quirks and foibles of growing up in Small Town U.S.A. ... This is a fun book! Well worth the read."

Jim Crees
Pioneer News Network

"Bazzett shares his memories of growing up in Reed City, attending Catholic boarding school in Grand Rapids in the 1950s and working at the local A&P grocery store."

Lansing State Journal

"Devilishly funny! ... Bazzett tells all with a witty, sometimes hilarious style so often missing from memoir writing ... A very American boy's life [told in] whimsical essays written with a sense of joy and pride ... This is the kind of book I wish my dad or grandfather had written. I would know them better now."

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Traverse City Record-Eagle

"A wonderful, touching and honest memoir that will make many smile in empathy as they remember the tortured rites of adolescence ... A terriffic read. I can't wait for the sequel!"

Dr. Neil Alexander Patten
Ferris State University Professor of Communications

"Pays tribute to small town life."

Cadillac News

"It ought to be required reading for every self-absorbed, video game-addicted, non-chore performing youngster ... Reed City Boy captures a certain bygone warmth ... It honors growing up in small-town America [and depicts] a life that might be defined as a melding of Opie, Beaver and Dobie."

Tom Rademacher
Grand Rapids Press

"Delightful! ... Touching, funny, and infused with a love of family, friends, and, certainly, Reed City ... Refreshingly devoid of the usual anger and angst associated with memories of one's youth ... Write on!"

Dr. Thomas Gordon
Director of Human Services for Oakland County, Michigan

"A real piece of American history ... Very well done: honest and frank and very Midwestern (and from me that's praise)."

Samuel Hynes
Professor Emeritus of Literature at Princeton University
and author of The Growing Seasons and Flights of Passage

"'Don't tell Mom, OK?' In Reed City Boy Tim Bazzett tells all, making his parents proud and leaving his readers anxiously awaiting his next book, which we certainly hope will not be his last."

Amy J. Van Ooyen
author of Transplants, and Michigan's U.P. Writer of the Year

"As anyone who has gone to Ferris knows, just north of Paris is not the city of Rouen, but Reed City. In Reed City Boy, Bazzett pays tribute to the town that shaped him ... And as for his style of sledding? 'I was hospitalized for weeks and couldn't walk for months,' Bazzett confesses. An even worse fate than Jean Shepherd's famously ill-fated Christmas gift of a Red Ryder BB gun!"

Marc Sheehan
Crimson & Gold/FSU

"Thank you for Reed City Boy ... (a) delightful book. It is a fine addition to my library."

Hon. Jennifer M. Granholm
Governor of Michigan

"Reading Reed City Boy was like stepping back in time to my own childhood. Bazzett's conversational style made the story so accessible that I closed the book feeling I'd just had a long enjoyable chat with an old friend ... An entertaining read."

Peg Kehret
award-winning author of Trapped and Abduction!

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