dear students,
hope this week is wonderful in your reading careers:) last week for me was good – read “going bovine” – all 481 pages worth – okay story – wasn’t impressed – language and certain situations in the book definitely not for adolescent reading – can’t figure out what the newberry crew saw in it – maybe they’re all “don quixote” fans…

book i enjoyed more was a biography on johnny kelley – a guy who ran the boston marathon 61 times – despite becoming a seeming encyclopedia about boston, i didn’t know that kelley had been stationed in alabama during world war ii – so that was a neat thing to find out about

with other readings – i kept up with the olympics, of course, i read the economist and learned that the yankees are looking for starting pitching in china – and sports illustrated told me that the new jersey nets are awful – all wonderful things to now know:)

for this week, i have “best efforts” by kenny moore – a book about post-munich runners – great read so far (i’ve read “bowerman” by him and loved that one too) – i also have a book on robert oppenheimer – the overseer of the manhattan project – the book won the pulitzer a few years ago – i got it saturday at a book sale in mountain brook – so i’m looking forward to getting more into it (i’m 70 pages in but the book is 700 pages long – so i suspect it’ll take me a week or two to finish)

hope your reading is great,
maf