My thanks to A CREW R, for pointing me to "The Red Rose Crew" by Daniel Boyne and to those who posted in the thread recommending "Drawn to the Rhythm" by Sara Hall. They were both excellent. I also just finished, "Waters Edge - Women who push the limits in rowing, kayaking & canoeing" by Linda Lewis. It was nice to read a bit more on our matriarch Ernestine Bayer.
Anyone else read anything good lately?
(non-rowing subjects as well)
Good reading
Summer Reading List
Hey, Storm, I'm really catching up with you tonight. I got Red Rose Crew from the library but didn't have time to finish when it was due. I'll hope to get it again, a good book to take to summer camp.
Not related to rowing, but I just finished Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan). A departure for Tan but a very interesting read. I'm starting This Is Your Brain on Music (Daniel Levitin), which is purported to explain why we get songs stuck in our brains. The latter I found on the JPMorgan Summer Reading List, which we share with our clients. There were several on last year's list that I would not have found on my own but were excellent: River of Doubt (Millard), The Lost Painting (Harr), and Humble Masterpieces (Antonelli), though this last is not so much a "reader" as it is photographs and short profiles of those humble masterpieces, a very fun book to page through. Anyway, I have not started on all of this year's list, though it did not seem to have as many fictions and I rarely read non-fiction for fun...though several I've found on my library's daily email reading program have been terrific, like Made To Stick (Heath & Heath) and Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert).
As I work full time, have two active middle- and high-school aged sons so busy with homework, scouts, sports, etc., actual reading time is slim to none, so I go for books on tape/CD whenever I can. I listen in the car and around the house and especially when exercising. But it has to be a really good book to exercise to. As often as not, I just exercise to one of the Harry Potters, as they are in my iPod and I just go through them in a loop. Sometimes I'll just listen to the downloads of podcasts from Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me (NPR) or a few other radio shows I can't listen to live.
I'll write again when I find that summer list from JPM if you're interested. Let me know what is on your sumer list.
Cindy
Not related to rowing, but I just finished Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan). A departure for Tan but a very interesting read. I'm starting This Is Your Brain on Music (Daniel Levitin), which is purported to explain why we get songs stuck in our brains. The latter I found on the JPMorgan Summer Reading List, which we share with our clients. There were several on last year's list that I would not have found on my own but were excellent: River of Doubt (Millard), The Lost Painting (Harr), and Humble Masterpieces (Antonelli), though this last is not so much a "reader" as it is photographs and short profiles of those humble masterpieces, a very fun book to page through. Anyway, I have not started on all of this year's list, though it did not seem to have as many fictions and I rarely read non-fiction for fun...though several I've found on my library's daily email reading program have been terrific, like Made To Stick (Heath & Heath) and Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert).
As I work full time, have two active middle- and high-school aged sons so busy with homework, scouts, sports, etc., actual reading time is slim to none, so I go for books on tape/CD whenever I can. I listen in the car and around the house and especially when exercising. But it has to be a really good book to exercise to. As often as not, I just exercise to one of the Harry Potters, as they are in my iPod and I just go through them in a loop. Sometimes I'll just listen to the downloads of podcasts from Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me (NPR) or a few other radio shows I can't listen to live.
I'll write again when I find that summer list from JPM if you're interested. Let me know what is on your sumer list.
Cindy
It is our choices that show what we truly are, Harrry, far more than our abilities. (from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling)
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I tend to go with non-fiction mostly, but am always interested in good reads Cindy.
This time of year, I garden and have so many outside chores that I fall behind on my reading. I'll play catch up during the long nights of winter.
I recently finished "What Did You Do During the War, Mummy?", which was a compliation of stories of mostly British women and their war time service (WWII). I have a friend who is 94. She was an Army nurse who volunteered to go overseas before the US was drawn into WWII. She has incredible stories, was at the Battle of the Buldge and numerous other campaigns. I'm encouraging her to jot some of her experiences down for future generations of women. Amazing paths some women have walked.
This time of year, I garden and have so many outside chores that I fall behind on my reading. I'll play catch up during the long nights of winter.
I recently finished "What Did You Do During the War, Mummy?", which was a compliation of stories of mostly British women and their war time service (WWII). I have a friend who is 94. She was an Army nurse who volunteered to go overseas before the US was drawn into WWII. She has incredible stories, was at the Battle of the Buldge and numerous other campaigns. I'm encouraging her to jot some of her experiences down for future generations of women. Amazing paths some women have walked.