Books for Blazers
by OBJuan72 on May 24, 2009 8:11 AM PDT
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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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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”
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
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.....
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”
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”>)
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
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”
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
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.
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.
Brandon Roy : The Mystery of the Yellow Room
And a summer movie for Nicolas Batum : Hot shots (part deux)
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