Booking Through Thursday (19) & Recent Books Meme
BOOKING THROUGH THURSDAY
Today’s BTT meme:
First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both?
Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you hate sports and never read anything sports-related, that, too … but you don’t have to love sports to enjoy a good sports story. (Or a good sports movie, for that matter. Feel free to expand this into a discussion about “Friday Night Lights” or “The Natural” or whatever…)
From Trish: Are you watching the Olympics? What’s your favorite event? What do you think is the silliest event?
The short answer: No. :)
The longer answer: I don’t read books about the Olympics or sports. I think I may have read a few books that take place in the context of some sports, but nothing specifically about sports.
I do not generally consider myself a sports fan. I can get somewhat excited if the football team of my alma mater does well. (Go Cougars!) Also, I don’t mind attending a local baseball game or two. Also, I have watched and generally enjoyed Friday Night Lights, the television series.
I have only caught about ten minutes of the Olympics so far. My favorite event to watch is swimming. (I think it’s a little weird to have team Olympic sports. How can you award a whole team a gold medal??)
Are there any sports books that I absolutely must read? Recommendations? Anyone? Anyone?
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RECENT BOOKS MEME
I was tagged by Nari at The Novel World to fill out the latest book meme floating around the blogosphere. It was originally started by Amy at My Friend Amy.
I am going to list three categories of books. 3 MUST Read Books, 3 Keep Your Eyes on These, and 3 Look For These Soon. Keeping with the theme, I am going to tag at least 3 bloggers. They should put these same lists on their blog but SUBTRACT one book from each list and ADD one of their own. Then they should tag at least 3 more bloggers. It will be fun to see how the lists change as it goes around the blogosphere. Please come back to this post and leave a comment so I can see how the lists are changing as they go around the blogosphere. Since this is Book Buzz…please keep your lists to titles released in 2007-2009.
Stars next to my additions …
3 MUST Read Books:
When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
*On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
3 Keep Your Eyes on These:
*Monique and the Mango Rains, by Kris Holloway
Laughing Without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidso
3 Look For These Soon:
The Dracula Dossier by James Reese
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
*What Happened to Anna K., by Irina Reyn
I Tag (Without Pressure) the Following Bloggers:
Unfinished Person at Just a (Reading) Fool
Chartroose at Bloody Hell, It’s a Book Barrage!
Suey at It’s All About Books
7 comments
Sorry, but I can’t list any book titles that you MUST read. However, I do encourage you to watch Michael Phelps as he swims toward the unbelievable goal of taking 8 out of 8 gold medals–a perfect Olympian. (I hope he makes it.)
I’m a big sports fan, but I’d rather watch it live, or participate myself than read books or watch movies about it. I can’t even think of a sports related book I’ve read recently to share with you.
A good book that I will recommend as one to keep your eye on is Bear Any Burden by Ellis Goodman. It’s a family epic typecold war thriller that is far and away the best book I’ve read so far this summer. I think Goodman is definitely going to be an author to watch.
Here was my answer to this week’s question, Jessica. It might give you a few ideas on sports books.
Sadly, I won’t be able to respond to your meme with a post, because I just included a new item on my sidebar that explains my “tag at your own peril” policy on memes. But since I’ve just put him (you’ll have to see what I mean) up there, I won’t dispatch him after you. :)
But I’ll be glad to respond to your meme here, with suggestions for you. I even have the comments section here bookmarked with a new program called CoComments that should help me keep track.
Hey! I see I’ve been tagged! But I must say, I’m not sure what “Keep Your Eye on These” means for sure. Hmmm…..
My friend brought me the magazine article on Anna K., and how appropriate that I have just finished Anna Karenina. I’ll be looking out for this “Manhattan” version of Anna. :)
Not familiar with many of the books on your lists - that’s a good sign, more books for me to check out. Thanks!
Well, as I’m not an ARC reader, I really can’t respond to the meme, but I’ll tell you the last three MUST reads that I read:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibigaza (sp?)
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