Book Review - SHATTERED by Frank Pastore

Frank Pastore's new book "Shattered: Struck Down But Not Destroyed" has recently been released - I believe it is his first book.  In this autobiography, a quick and easy read, Frank tells stories of his childhood, his baseball career, his marriage, starting a family, and his life after baseball, which is really the point of the book, despite the first two-thirds of the book covering childhood through the end of his baseball career. 

Anyhow, throughout the book, Frank tells his life story through the context of different times aspects of his life were 'shattered' and how God saw him through (even as he reflected and looked back, Frank details how God in his providence saw him through during the times when Frank was a raging athiest!)

I think you will definitely enjoy reading this book... It is light and quick to read - short chapters about 2-3 pages average, and it probably about 3-4 hours total to read and I was done!  My favorite part was the short chapters - I love having 'good stopping points' when reading, and thats exactly what you get -- to give you an idea, the book is 220 pages long and there are 38 chapters!  : )

Anyhow, its basically him writing down his testimony - it might take about 45 min to an hour for him to say all of this to an audience, and a few of the things I have heard him say on the radio - however, one of the things I was hoping he would get into (and he did, though not in great detail) was his falling out with BIOLA.  He lays out what happened, although doesn't really get into names and very specific, but that is OK with me... I just always wondered what happened!

Anyhow, I would definitely recommend it - and if you aren't interested in dropping $10-15 to own it, I know where you can get an an autographed copy on loan!