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Inside Edge.............. Christine Brennan (1996)


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Tiger Lady wrote:Inside Edge.............. Christine Brennan (1996)
About figure skating? I think I read that a while back, but I don't have a good memory of it.
I read so much but my memory is so poor - sometimes I have to go back and re-read a little to catch myself up if I've been away from a book for a little while. That's the beauty of a BOOK - you can lay it down; and then with little effort pick it back up later and refresh your memory.
I always have a book going and on hand - sometimes more than one - it takes nothing [well maybe a little light] to start reading then pause and restart however much later the same book.


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The Golf Omnibus.............. P.G. Wodehouse (1973)


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I just finished Hell Is Empty - a Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery by Craig Johnson. Here's a quote I think some of you might relate to.
After a harrowing, nearly fatal, pursuit of a bad guy up a mountain in a blizzard, Sheriff Walt Longmire is recuperating sitting outside in the sun on his deck:
"The only part of me that was free to move was my right arm, which I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes. Cady [his daughter] thought I was balancing my electrolytes too much and wouldn't allow me to have a cooler on the deck anymore."
His chief deputy is a female named Victoria - called Vic. Her father and grandfather are both named Victor, and her extended Italian family refers to them collectively as Vic the Father; Vic the Son; and Vic the Holy Terror.

It's little touches like that that make a book stick in your mind. Love it!


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About Three Bricks Shy of a Load........Roy Blount Jr. (1974)


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A Fan's Note.......... Frederick Exley (1968)


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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life............. Richard Ben Cramer (2000


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The Game They Played............. Stanley Cohen (1977)


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Veeck as in Wreck...... Bill Veeck and Ed Linn (1962)


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It came up on a different thread/subject, but I recommend Nevil Shute for his contemporary novels about the WW II era in England. Old - still very good reads!


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The Age of Greta Dreams - Farber................... :12224


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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons........... Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind (1957)


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"Nothing Like It in the World"...story of the building of the transcontinental railroad; Stephen Ambrose


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The Worst Journey in the World...........Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)


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dazed&confused wrote:"Nothing Like It in the World"...story of the building of the transcontinental railroad; Stephen Ambrose
I have read and enjoyed other Stephen Ambrose books, but I'm not familiar with that one - it's on my library list now - I'll hunt it up. Libraries are good for that!


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Any/all - the more you read: the more you learn and the better you get with language and communication - skills really important in "employability"!


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Beyond a Boundary......... C.L.R. James (1963)


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caglewis wrote:Any/all - the more you read: the more you learn and the better you get with language and communication - skills really important in "employability"!

exactly............. :12224


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The Merriam Webster Dictionary........North America's #1 Paperback Dictionary


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A False Spring............ Pat Jordan (1975)


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