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Richard 77
Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 4155 Location: Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Posted: 12/30/17 6:32 pm ::: What I'm Reading 2018 |
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I'm beginning the book, One Thousand White Women - The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus. For January's book discussion group at my local library.
(What I'm writing.) Saving Ava and An Act of Weighted Murder. (And a little of Baby Ballers 3)_________________ If you cannot inspire yourself to read a book about women's basketball, or any book about women's sports, you cannot inspire any young girl or boy to write a book about them. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Richardstrek
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PUmatty
Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 16389 Location: Chicago
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Posted: 12/30/17 6:59 pm ::: Re: What I'm Reading 2018 |
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I'm halfway through John Sanford's "Rough Country." It's part his Virgil Flowers series, which I love.
Also about halfway through "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World," by Steve Johnson.
I'll probably finish one on the plane tomorrow, meaning I won't actually be reading it in 2018.
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HistoryWomensBasketball
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: CT
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Posted: 12/31/17 8:58 pm ::: |
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going through my book, Barnstorming America, Stories from the Pioneers of Women's basketball for any small corrections
was just told it is going back to press for 2nd pressing |
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fancy_daniel
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 4489 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: 01/03/18 1:25 am ::: |
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I just started "Man's Search for Meaning," by Viktor Frankl
and "Holy Water" by James Othmer."
Finished "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline this past weekend.
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Richard 77
Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 4155 Location: Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Posted: 01/03/18 4:38 am ::: |
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HistoryWomensBasketball wrote: |
going through my book, Barnstorming America, Stories from the Pioneers of Women's basketball for any small corrections
was just told it is going back to press for 2nd pressing |
Congratulations. I'm glad to hear your book has done well. May the second printing sell out also._________________ If you cannot inspire yourself to read a book about women's basketball, or any book about women's sports, you cannot inspire any young girl or boy to write a book about them. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Richardstrek
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HistoryWomensBasketball
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: CT
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Posted: 01/10/18 5:59 am ::: |
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Richard,
Thanks very much. I am very pleased with the comments of those that have read it. Honestly, as you know, unless you are one of a very select few, you do not write a book based on making money or selling a lot.
A second printing is an accomplishment. there have been some local signings around the country in players hometowns etc.
Even have a signing at the 20th Anniversary Induction at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Induction.
A big thing is what happens with the option on the book this spring. It expires. The production company can option it for another year, exercise it or just let it expire. While I do think it is a basis for possible film if not at least a documentary and the timing is pretty good with Hollywood, I keep my fingers crossed but will not lose any sleep if it expires.
Quite a ride for a person who simply is a fan of women's basketball |
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67139 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 02/01/18 9:50 am ::: |
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As many of you know, every year for Black History Month I make it a point to read a book written by a black author. This year it is "The Underground Railroad", a novel by Colson Whitehead
_________________ I'm sick and tired of the stories that you always tell
Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well
See, you're the largest liar that was ever created
You and Pinocchio are probably related
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time
Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind
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Youth Coach
Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 4762
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Posted: 02/01/18 10:13 pm ::: |
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I finished a couple of books that I'll be reviewing for Mystery Scene magazine.
The first was Hard Aground by Brendan Dubois. The second was Bloody January by Alan Parks. |
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Richard 77
Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 4155 Location: Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Posted: 02/02/18 4:36 am ::: |
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I'm currently reading two books. The Women In The Castle by Jessica Shattuck and Hamlet - Shakespeare. (Memorizing Hamlet's lines.)_________________ If you cannot inspire yourself to read a book about women's basketball, or any book about women's sports, you cannot inspire any young girl or boy to write a book about them. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Richardstrek
Adding: Write Funko. The WNBA should have Pops. |
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fancy_daniel
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 4489 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: 02/08/18 3:29 pm ::: |
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Now reading "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Also started "Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts.
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Youth Coach
Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 4762
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Posted: 03/09/18 7:18 am ::: |
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You can check out my latest Mystery Scene magazine review for the Dennis Palumbo thriller Head Wounds HERE! |
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fancy_daniel
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 4489 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: 03/29/18 1:24 pm ::: |
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Reading ...
"The Razor's Edge," by Somerset Maugham
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"Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain," by John J. Ratey
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67139 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 03/29/18 1:29 pm ::: |
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All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
_________________ I'm sick and tired of the stories that you always tell
Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well
See, you're the largest liar that was ever created
You and Pinocchio are probably related
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time
Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind
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Youth Coach
Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 4762
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Posted: 03/29/18 6:33 pm ::: |
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I finished an advance copy of the Greg F. Gifune novel Dangerous Boys which I'll be reviewing for Mystery Scene magazine.
I also finished the third Maddie Day Country Store Mystery When The Grits Hit The Fan. |
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justintyme
Joined: 08 Jul 2012 Posts: 8407 Location: Northfield, MN
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Posted: 03/29/18 6:42 pm ::: |
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I am in the midst of a reread of Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
I have finished Consider Phlebas and Player of Games, and am currently reading Use of Weapons.
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PUmatty
Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 16389 Location: Chicago
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Posted: 03/30/18 10:10 am ::: |
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I just finished listening to Samantha Irby's "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life." I highly recommend it. It is laugh-out-loud funny throughout, but still takes on very serious and personal topics. She talks about her history of abuse, chronic, mental and physical illness, racism, self-hate, living in poverty, and then turns around and gives an account of a vibrator that made her wife "squirt so hard she hit the cat." If that phrase bothers you, you probably won't like the book, but if it it makes you laugh, you will love it.
I recommend the audiobook, read by Irby herself.
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jimmyk
Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 4028 Location: Bristol. TN
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Posted: 04/02/18 2:08 am ::: |
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I just finished Joe Buck's Lucky Bastard and Harry Caray's Holy Cow. Now I'm on Walter Payton's autobiography that was started in the last weeks he was on this earth.
And if you want to be motivated to become a better person, pick up Ernie Johnson's Unscripted. It is wonderful.
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fancy_daniel
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 4489 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: 04/02/18 2:05 pm ::: |
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justintyme wrote: |
I am in the midst of a reread of Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
I have finished Consider Phlebas and Player of Games, and am currently reading Use of Weapons. |
I'm curious about Banks. It's been a long time since I've found a Sci Fi series I could sink my teeth into.
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Youth Coach
Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 4762
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Posted: 04/02/18 5:26 pm ::: |
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I finished the Maddie Day mystery novel "Biscuits and Slashed Browns". |
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fancy_daniel
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 4489 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: 04/09/18 8:19 pm ::: |
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Now Reading ...
"The Circle" by Dave Eggers
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"The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71" by Alistair Horne
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justintyme
Joined: 08 Jul 2012 Posts: 8407 Location: Northfield, MN
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Posted: 04/09/18 9:18 pm ::: |
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fancy_daniel wrote: |
justintyme wrote: |
I am in the midst of a reread of Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
I have finished Consider Phlebas and Player of Games, and am currently reading Use of Weapons. |
I'm curious about Banks. It's been a long time since I've found a Sci Fi series I could sink my teeth into. |
I enjoy Banks' writing immensely. In fact, I am rereading these at the moment because I am planning in using one as part of my class on post-structuralism (I have my students read 4 novels over the semester. Two of those are the same every time; the other two I mix up).
The books typically revolve around moral dilemmas faced by The Culture, a post-scarcity utopia lead by benevolent, super-intelligent artificial intelligences (as opposed to the more traditional sci-fi trope of AIs who turn on humanity.). They are all stand alone novels and they usually explore how this society handles itself on its fringes, especially when it deals with less "enlightened" worlds/groups.
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fancy_daniel
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Posted: 04/10/18 1:24 pm ::: |
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justintyme wrote: |
fancy_daniel wrote: |
justintyme wrote: |
I am in the midst of a reread of Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
I have finished Consider Phlebas and Player of Games, and am currently reading Use of Weapons. |
I'm curious about Banks. It's been a long time since I've found a Sci Fi series I could sink my teeth into. |
I enjoy Banks' writing immensely. In fact, I am rereading these at the moment because I am planning in using one as part of my class on post-structuralism (I have my students read 4 novels over the semester. Two of those are the same every time; the other two I mix up).
The books typically revolve around moral dilemmas faced by The Culture, a post-scarcity utopia lead by benevolent, super-intelligent artificial intelligences (as opposed to the more traditional sci-fi trope of AIs who turn on humanity.). They are all stand alone novels and they usually explore how this society handles itself on its fringes, especially when it deals with less "enlightened" worlds/groups. |
Wow! Some deep stuff. I like my fiction a little more straightforward. I did look up post structuralism and saw the dreaded Foucault there which I did not enjoy in college. Also, the whole phenomenology thing is literally what my husband is working on so I hear about it all the time. Weird you would bring up all these themes.
In any case, I did start skimming "Consider Phlebas" and the writing seemed erratic and hard to follow. I tend to like my novels in very linear fashion without excessive description. But I am aware there are some difficult authors such as Foster Wallace or Vollman that I want to tackle but have to get over the fact their writing is very non-linear.
I will give it a shot at some point though. I do like novels that tackle cultural issues. Your class does sound interesting and a different take on the view of the sci fi novel.
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Youth Coach
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jammerbirdi
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Youth Coach
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Posted: 05/25/18 5:28 pm ::: |
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I went to an author event with three mystery writers yesterday. You can check out my recap HERE! |
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