happy early spring break (or happy early Christmas – i guess – since it’s all early:)

let’s see… i was going to snuggle up with my cubs blanket last week and read on the oppenhemier book – and i did end up reading on it – without the blanket though – this weekend – got about 300 pages read over the weekend – got the narrative past the dropping of the two atomic bombs – the tragedy of his life is beginning

but in the midst of the week, i had two other books – best efforst by kenny moore – which was written in 1982 – a collection of moore’s essays about runners from sports illustrated – awesome writing – descriptive – as for the second book, heroes and sparrows, by roger robinson – comparable strangely enough to the moore book because it was also a collection of non-fiction essays – and similar as far as covering races and runners – both very enjoyable – robinson was living in new zealand at the time so there’s some difference there too (like culturally)

in magazine reading, the best essay i read was on the 1950 world cup star for the US – who actually wasn’t a US citizen – and who actually died in Haiti, his home country – later under a dictator – i knew some of the story but not all of it

i also read two good essays from the ny times magazine – scott brown, the new senator from mass. – and one about a newly-elected cullman state rep – the twist being that he’s an african-american and that area is like over 90 percent white

so i’m done – hope your week is a good one

maf