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Training: Back at it after a long break – The body is tired but the spirit is rested (I stole that line from Mother Pollard and Leonard Pitts).
School: Good, but busy – but busy is good. I just began a research position for a professor writing a couple books on African-American history and politics. The first book covers the Reagan years up through Hurricane Katrina. The second book is about Dr. Benjamin Mays – the friend and spiritual advisor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Books: Those of you who know me know that I’m an obsessive reader. So here’s a list of things I’ve been reading lately, starting with the newspapers that I read every/almost every day.
Daily:
The New York Times
The Lebanon Daily Star (English daily out of Beirut, Lebanon)
The Lawrence Journal World (Lawrence, KS daily)
Brown University Daily Herald
The University Daily Kansan
The Middletown Daily Record (My brother’s paper)
Weekly:
The Pitch, Lawrence.com and Dos Mundos (local Spanish language paper)
Books:
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (good, fast read)
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (great story, highly recommended)
The Stories of Breece d’j Pancake by Breece d’j Pancake (perhaps my favorite writer –
he killed himself at age 26 and this is his only published book)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (I hate this book. I don’t know why it’s taught in
so many schools)
African Americans in the Furniture City by Dr. Randal Jelks
(good historical account of the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids, MI between 1860 and the Civil Rights Movement)
Alright, time to go sit in some ice. Congrats to everyone who competed well this weekend and good luck to everyone in the coming weeks.
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4:10 PM, January 21, 2008
.. Posted by missbri
I saw that movie "No country for old men"...anyway, if it's half as gruesome as the movie I will spend half the time skipping pages!
Yeah....
9:00 PM, January 21, 2008
.. Posted by hmurphy
No Country for Old Men is pretty violent - the book is easier to take though, and it's more suspenseful. But yeah, Cormac McCarthy is a pretty violent old dude.
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