pickThis is a propulsive read. Honestly, I had trouble putting it down. Sure. I was a Reds fan as a kid and went from idolizing Rose to hating Rose in my early 20s. But still, I contend that it is an interesting read for anyone who loves sports and, especially, baseball.
Somehow, O'Brien managed to write a book that feels very dense and pulls no punches while keeping the reader constantly engaged.
panEnglishman Dave Gorman travels to America and attempts to drive coast to coast without financially supporting any type of chain, be it food, lodging or gas. This should have been more interesting than it was. In fact, it could have been interesting if it were an article rather than a book--a book that felt like it would never end.
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Painful. Especially since it‘s all worse now. So far it‘s a hindsight roadmap of how we got to where we are.
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Peter Carey is never going to be a favorite, but I do admire him even if I don‘t love him. This started off well but became baggy in the middle. A French aristocrat travels to antebellum America to ostensibly writes treatise on American prisons but really to escape political threats. He‘s accompanied by Englishman Parrot, a nominal servant but very much his own man and with a tragic past.
Late but I had to join in this #TakeThreeThursday because I play Statele everyday & have gotten really good about knowing the shapes of the states (except for Colorado & Wyoming which when you see them one at a time look exactly the same to me.🤷🏻♀️)
Anyway, I blew my first attempt & missed 3 because of my fat fingers & the tiny Eastern states so I zoomed way in on my second try & got 100%! 🎉
Fun! (Super fiddly to navigate on my phone, though.) I‘ve always been a map geek —when I was a kid, I wanted to be a cartographer once I learned what that word meant.
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