Yes, I may find that I've overegged the pudding with too many ongoing reading projects. I have (so far) managed to resist adding Dante's Divine Comedy, but that's not starting till Good Friday, so that's a lot of time for my resolve to slip... At very least I should hold out until Whale Weekly and Letters from Watson start, so I can see if there's really time for yet another.

For an author who claims not to care what his characters do, Heyliger's characters actually do quite a lot! (In The Spirit of the Leader, they run a heated student council election, convince the city government to fix the street in front of their school, rally votes for the money to build a high school athletic field, etc. etc...) But the motive force behind the action is that action changes (or demonstrates) character, not action for action's sake. I think this is why I find Heyliger so readable, when I'm often bored to death by other sports stories from the time period: there's an added layer to the baseball.