Monday, May 3, 2010

Last week I read Honus and Me by Dan Gutman. I was given the book and that combined with the fact that it is about baseball convinced me that I should read it. It is a book that is aimed at a slightly less advanced reading audience but I found it very interesting non the less. The book is fairly small and has a very simple and yet attractive cover. Honus and Me made for a quick and entertaining read. It didn't take very long to read it and easily kept my attention the whole way through. It made me think about a lot of things. In the book the boy finds a tabacco company issued baseball card of Honus Wagner in an old lady's attic when he was cleaning it out. He does some research on the card and finds out that the card is worth more than half a million dollars. He tells the lady this and she says she doesn't want to sell it because it is her last remaining picture of her son. That made me think, if something is worth over half a million dollars is it possible for it to be worth more than money to me? Many family heirlooms are worth more to you than their money value but that is usually because the object itself is almost worthless. If I had something worth that much would I would probably sell it no matter what it was. In the story the old woman is dirt poor but yet she decides not to sell the card because the picture of her son is worth more than half a million dollars to her. Would you keep something worth over half a million dollars even if it was the last remaining picture of your son? What would that be worth to you? Is something like that priceless?