I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. I found this book incredibly interesting the author really kept me hooked until the end. very well written I highly recommend.

I was not expecting to enjoy A Season With Mom quite as much as I did. Kudos to Katie Russell Newland for writing a memoir that will appeal to almost everyone. It covered exactly what it was billed to cover: love, loss and the ultimate baseball experience. I loved it!
Written as a series of letters to her deceased mother, Katie details her journey through life and cancer and every MLB ballpark in the country. Honest and poignant, the author both basks in childhood memories and struggles to make sense of some of them. A good memoir does that and encourages the reader to reflect on their own memories.
Weaving in the ballpark stories, Katie uses baseball strategies as metaphors for life. She takes us along to the parks and makes us use all our senses to experience the vastness of the day.
This is a lovely book and I thank NetGalley, Harper Horizon and Katie Russell Newland for this ARC. I just bought several copies as gifts.

This book is beyond beautiful. I am a huge baseball fan and I lost my mother on my 13th birthday. Katie is so strong and I savored each page. It was very tough for me to read given the subject, and it took me a while to be able to open the book to start, but I'm so glad i did. I can't recommend it enough!! Gorgeous.

Overall, I liked this memoir but was hoping it would focus a bit more on Katie’s experiences at each ballpark. It seemed a bit repetitive and I struggled to sit and read it for a long period of time. However, I did like reading about Katie’s memories with her mom and family, as well as her own life journey.

I felt like I knew Katie by the time we travelled to all 30 ballparks in America. Actually as a huge baseball fan, I'm a little envious and happy for her all the same. The baseball theme is what attracted me to this book but it was more than I expected. While at certain stops in some cities, I wished there had been more attention the details of the park or the game she saw - I was ultimately pulled in to her story. Katie had planned to visit these parks with her mother, whose life was taken by cancer before it could happen. Katie herself was later diagnosed with cancer too and showed bravery by making this journey happen and documenting it with letters to her mom which lets us in to her emotional and nostalgic thoughts. In this way, Katie's mom was there. She still made the trip to all of America's ballparks. You'll enjoy taking the trip with them too. Oh and you'll enjoy the photo from each park with a symbolic splash of red. An advance copy of the book was available for me without obligation of a favorable review.

Chock full of emotional and touching moments, insights and inspirational messages, and always love. Love of the game, of family, and of the human spirit we can witness and hear when we listen. From the introduction by Peyton Manning to the final ballpark, an historic World Series, and the impact from Covid-19, Katie’s message is beautifully told.
I appreciate the opportunity from NetGalley and the publisher to read and enjoy this book

A Season with Mom by Katie Russell Newland is a lovely written tribute to the author's mom. The author and her mom are huge baseball fans. After losing her Mom to cancer and surviving cancer herself, the author decides to go on a journey of visiting one baseball game at each of America's baseball parks. Each chapter is written in the form of a letter to her Mom where the author tells her about the game and the life lesson she learned at the game and how it often relates to her relationship with her Mom. I was drawn to this book because I am baseball fan myself and love to go to baseball games. I found this book inspiring and felt like the book is a lovely tribute to the author's Mom. I strongly recommend this book! Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book! (This review is also on GoodReads!)

"Love, Loss, and the Ultimate Baseball Adventure" is the subtitle of a forthcoming book named A SEASON WITH MOM by Katie Russell Newland. Since today is 2021's opening day ("Go, Cubbies!"), it seemed like a good time to review this memoir filled with the travels and reflections from Newland's visits to all 30 Major League Baseball Parks during the 2015 season. She undertook the trip in homage to her mother who had died from cancer a few years earlier. Here is what Newland (herself a cancer survivor) has to say regarding this book about baseball and how it's "also a love story. ... of a mother and daughter and our passion for the Chicago Cubs, the perennial underdog. ... of the fans and communities in which they reside. ... of the pauses in life that give us an opportunity to self-reflect and to cultivate self-awareness – an opportunity to BE. ...” At each park, Newland, often joined by a friend, shares some learning like commenting on "... the beauty of a new baseball season. Each year, you have a chance to start over, to be better, to do something different." Filled with insights crafted as poignant letters to her Mom, Newland's A SEASON WITH MOM is touching, comforting, and inspiring; a book to savor -- visit one ball park a day or a week or an hour.

Thank you NetGalley, Katie Russell Newland and Harper Horizon for the ARC of A Season With Mom. This is my personal review.
This is an amazing touching heartfelt book about the love between a mother and a daughter.
The dream of visiting every MLB ballpark together was a shared dream but that dream would not be shared together and instead Katie fulfilled that dream alone. She lost her Mom to cancer but took her with her in her thoughts and through letters she wrote to her Mom as she traveled to the baseball stadiums. The love of baseball the two shared was a bond that can never be taken from Katie.
This story of a mother and daughters love is one that will stay with me forever. I can not thank Katie enough for taking me on this journey with her.

This was an amazing read that was not only touching but inspiring. This journey to the 30 MLB ballparks was both a tribute to not only her mother but to herself. Written as a series of letters, this book was a story of self reflection and discovery. I was both touched and inspired by this emotional read.

I don’t like baseball. So why did I choose to read a memoir that focuses on the author’s sojourn to all 30 MLB parks as a tribute to her mom? Because my mom is a baseball fanatic. The author also rooted for,the Cubs. My grandpa was a lifelong Cub fan and I always rooted for them in support of him because most other family members liked the Cardinals. I related to,this book because of my close relationship with my mom and her love of,the game. I was estatic when the Cubs won the World Series and I knew wherever he was, my grandpa was beaming. I also used to enjoy Harry Carray saying Holy Cow; that’s a childhood memory I’ll never forget. This memoir was poignant as Russell reflected on her relationship with,her mom and their bouts of cancer. It’s a home run.

A lovely heart wrenching read a story of baseball but really a story of a daughters love for her mother.TTold in the form of letter ps it’s emotionally moving beautiful story.#netgalley #harper

First, any book that looks at all thirty ballparks? Yes. Then, each stop along the way opened up Memory Lane. We learned about the author's family as we read, and more than one valuable life lesson. I liked the letter format that was used as well.

i felt right at home with this book by Katie Russell. So many parallels between us. Especially the Cubs.
A daughter and mom bond over baseball. Katie writes letters to her deceased mom reminiscing about the past and childhood memories as she travels to every major league ball park during one season. A promise that her and her mother never got to experience together. A unique take on love between mom and daughter after it's too late. Lovely B/W photos of each stadium )with a dash of red) begin each chapter.
Thank you NetGalley and Katie Russell for this book. I quite enjoyed it.

I received an advance copy of, A Season with Mom, by Katie Russell Newland. This book is essentially love letters from a daughter to her mother. A great book.