Books for Blazers

by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 8:11 AM PDT

Books for Blazers 3rd edition (Summer Reading 2009)

Ben ... Bird By Bird

Brandon ... Shogun

Channing ... For Whom the Bell Tolls

Dave ... Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

Greg ... A Few Words From the Chair

Jerryd ... The Red and the Black

Joel ... Quiet Strength

LaMarcus ... The Four Insights

Martell ... Basketball Defense: Lessons from the Legends

Michael ... Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Nicolas ... The Count of Monte Cristo

Raef ... Lush Life (Richard Price)

Rudy ... Sometimes a Great Notion

Sergio ... Journey to Ixtlan

Shavlik ... The Immense Journey

Steve ... Summer of the Monkeys

Travis ... The Fearful Void

"Come to the edge, He said.

They said, We are afraid.

Come to the edge, He said.

They came. He pushed them ... And they flew"

Guillaume Apollaire)

Blind Your Ponies, last year's selection for Steve, is an uplifting story about high school basketball. The title refers to the response by Crow warriors to great tragedy.

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This sounds like a good JD topic

"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii

by 92wastheyear on May 24, 2009 8:18 AM PDT reply actions

Are Testosterone Users

eligible to post junk drawers?

by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions

If you use testosterone

your junk becomes all powerful. However ….Tom just posted today’s junk drawer

"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii

by 92wastheyear on May 24, 2009 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions

92 This Book's for you

Successful Sandbagging: Creative Bowling for Profit (Made up title based on something I wrote 40 years ago)

For TiH, I’d recommend “Sex Lives of Cannibals,” by Troost, or perhaps “The Reformed Vampire Support Group” which I found when looking up references to “Tied to the Bedgepost”

by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions

thanks

you remembered the bowling thing

"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii

by 92wastheyear on May 24, 2009 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions

PED usage in BEdge?!? I'm surprised like Selig

Take it to the Hole!!

by galacticlove on May 24, 2009 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions

Bud Selig?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kind%20Bud

by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

ah good kine bud selig...

talk about chronic ignorance

Take it to the Hole!!

by galacticlove on May 24, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions

Who is Batum escaping from?

Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....

by pookeyguru on May 24, 2009 11:20 AM PDT reply actions

Two Years Before the Mast

was the book I picked last year, but your question has me thinking he deserves something different. Maybe “Cold Steel”

by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions

what about...

“Two Fingers and the White Guy” ?

Take it to the Hole!!

by galacticlove on May 24, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions

Galacticlove, You broke my ankles with that one

It’s not even listed in WorldCat as library book that I can borrow, so I’m buying a used copy from Amazon. (Are you familier with “Counting Coup” and “Mocassin Telegraph”>)

by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I am with the short stories in Mocassin Telegraph...

I had not heard of Counting Coup but now I would love to check it out! It reminds me of a cooler version of the movie “Edge of America” (or something like that)…

Take it to the Hole!!

by galacticlove on May 25, 2009 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions

Is Two Fingers

anything like Kinsella’s stories

by OBJuan72 on May 25, 2009 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions

in that they both paint bleak, dysfunctional pictures to set a scene for warm stories

Kinsella’s narrator is more interesting.. kinda brings you into the story more, even if it can be a weird read at times..

Schneider tries a lot harder to draw contrasts.. maybe you could argue that it easier to read, but Kinsella has a way of characterizing that made me really enjoy those stories…

Take it to the Hole!!

by galacticlove on May 25, 2009 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks

I look forward to two-fingers, wondering which digits.
If you haven’t read it, my favorite basketball novel is “Blind Your Ponies”

by OBJuan72 on May 25, 2009 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions

thanks!

I haven’t read that but I’ll look into that and Counting Coup….

Take it to the Hole!!

by galacticlove on May 25, 2009 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions

For Mortimer

Memoirs of an American Geisha in London.

I'm chubby because I'm full of love.

by tominhawaii on May 24, 2009 11:54 AM PDT reply actions

Also for Greg

Mouthful of Rocks by Jennings

It seems that everyone's real problem is they just don't drink enough coffee. They lose their edge, lose track of their priorities, and end up sleeping a third of their life away.

by jlarose78 on May 24, 2009 5:01 PM PDT reply actions

Also for Sergio

Don Quixote

It seems that everyone's real problem is they just don't drink enough coffee. They lose their edge, lose track of their priorities, and end up sleeping a third of their life away.