Yes, though it was many years ago. It's a thoughtful book. I still remember how it's structured according to the seasons and my favorite part was when he was chasing the loon.
Life by Keith Richards. Been sitting on the shelf for a while. Want to pick up new ones by Pete & Neil and the one about Bruce and...( I have a problem ) but told myself I had to start with the ones I have first before I add anymore. Clapton's book has also been sitting on the shelf.
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion.
For six months Bidini followed the fortunes of the Serie B Peones, Nettunese to the core. At the same time he was also learning about his own heritage, having spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness. The result of his summer in Italy is vintage Bidini: a funny, perceptive, and engrossing book that takes readers far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play.
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion.
For six months Bidini followed the fortunes of the Serie B Peones, Nettunese to the core. At the same time he was also learning about his own heritage, having spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness. The result of his summer in Italy is vintage Bidini: a funny, perceptive, and engrossing book that takes readers far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play.
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion.
For six months Bidini followed the fortunes of the Serie B Peones, Nettunese to the core. At the same time he was also learning about his own heritage, having spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness. The result of his summer in Italy is vintage Bidini: a funny, perceptive, and engrossing book that takes readers far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play.
Wow, that's sounds intresting.
yeah it is, I love baseball books
Dave Bidini was the lead singer for a Canadian rock band the Rheostatics and has written a couple of books, he's a great writer
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Now I'm knee deep in "Columbine." Someone here mentioned it months ago, and it's been on my list since.
Edit: Fixed my typo
Don't know if it was me but I thought Columbine was excellent. Well written and thought-provoking. There are so many false assumptions about what happened and why, and he does a thorough job of debunking them.
Agreed. I can count myself among those who were mistaken on a lot of things, especially motive.
I did not find the accounts of the attack to be overly gruesome in any way, but the scope of the assault and the length of the planning are both chilling.
If it was you, thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how long it will take me to shake the feeling the book has left me with, but I'm glad I read it.
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Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Don't know if it was me but I thought Columbine was excellent. Well written and thought-provoking. There are so many false assumptions about what happened and why, and he does a thorough job of debunking them.
Agreed. I can count myself among those who were mistaken on a lot of things, especially motive.
I did not find the accounts of the attack to be overly gruesome in any way, but the scope of the assault and the length of the planning are both chilling.
If it was you, thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how long it will take me to shake the feeling the book has left me with, but I'm glad I read it.
I agree, the degree of planning behind it shocked me along with their intent. It was also discouraging to read how poorly the local authorities managed the investigation.
Currently reading The Laughterhouse by Paul Cleave. If you like his previous works you will like this one, although I am kind of shocked at the lack of gruesome scenes as he's had in previous books. I like the intertwining of his previous books and I still have two older books of his to read that have yet to get US releases. I'm sure Christchurch cringes everytime he releases a new book as he really pulls out the worst of the city, not worse than any other authors do though.
I'm hoping to finish this by Wednesday as I leave for vacation Thursday and I want to start a fresh book or two while I enjoy some time off. I'm thinking of taking either some Noir classics like Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Dashell Hammett's Red Harvest, or Ed McBain's Cop Hater. I also have Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses and Colin Bateman's Divorcing Jack... or I could just go with my usual quick reads with Michael Connelly and Lee Child... I got a stack and a half of books to chose from... I'm pretty sure this will be a harder decision than what clothes to pack!
Don't know if it was me but I thought Columbine was excellent. Well written and thought-provoking. There are so many false assumptions about what happened and why, and he does a thorough job of debunking them.
Agreed. I can count myself among those who were mistaken on a lot of things, especially motive.
I did not find the accounts of the attack to be overly gruesome in any way, but the scope of the assault and the length of the planning are both chilling.
If it was you, thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how long it will take me to shake the feeling the book has left me with, but I'm glad I read it.
It may have been me who mentioned the Columbine book a couple months ago.
I'm right there with you with having been mistaken on so many things about that tragedy. As I was reading the descriptions of the actual attack, I was on the edge of my seat like it was fiction. Pretty sad that that actually happened. But overall, great book and very eye-opening.
Still slogging my way through Pete Townshend's Who I Am. I just don't like reading memoirs! Started listening to the audiobook on my commute to and from work and I'm enjoying it much more that way. He reads it himself and it's often very funny as he laughs at different events and imitates other people's voices as he quotes them. I've never listened to an audiobook before but this is kind of fun.
Still slogging my way through Pete Townshend's Who I Am. I just don't like reading memoirs! Started listening to the audiobook on my commute to and from work and I'm enjoying it much more that way. He reads it himself and it's often very funny as he laughs at different events and imitates other people's voices as he quotes them. I've never listened to an audiobook before but this is kind of fun.
why would you start a memoir if you dont like reading memoirs??? i get its pete townsend but why think itll be any different than reading any other memoir. i have read a bio on pete townsend and im not even a fan of the who(please be kind to me ). but then again i am a fan of biographies. i can imagine him being very entertaining reading his memoir.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Still slogging my way through Pete Townshend's Who I Am. I just don't like reading memoirs! Started listening to the audiobook on my commute to and from work and I'm enjoying it much more that way. He reads it himself and it's often very funny as he laughs at different events and imitates other people's voices as he quotes them. I've never listened to an audiobook before but this is kind of fun.
why would you start a memoir if you dont like reading memoirs??? i get its pete townsend but why think itll be any different than reading any other memoir. i have read a bio on pete townsend and im not even a fan of the who(please be kind to me ). but then again i am a fan of biographies. i can imagine him being very entertaining reading his memoir.
Well, my decision to read it was a little more than just being a Who fan. Pete worked on this book for many years. He was one of the first artists to have his own web site, petetownshend.com, which unfortunately no longer exists. He had a blog there that was often very good reading. He also posted passages from his work-in-progress autobiography and I was impressed with the writing. (I also liked the title he was planning to give it--Pete Townshend: Who He? I'm guessing the lame title it ended up with was an editorial decision.)
Many memoirs are badly written, so even if the person has had an unusual or eventful life, I can't get past the writing. While that isn't the case with this one, it still follows the humdrum format of "I did this, and then I did this, and then I went there, and then I did that." I tend to think most memoirs are self-serving. There's some of that in Pete's but he is also a pretty harsh critic of himself, with plenty of detail about his failings and the people he's wronged.
But listening to him read the book is very entertaining. He's a good storyteller. Listening to it seems to make it a very different book.
The Great Northern Railway: A History by R. Hidy, M. Hidy, R. Scott and D. Hofsommer.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
This is the second one? Oh man, these two Elvis books are THE best. If you haven't read them, get them. I wasn't ever a big Elvis fan and then I read these books and understood why he's - duh - the King.
This months Men's Health on work outs for the abdominals.
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
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In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion.
For six months Bidini followed the fortunes of the Serie B Peones, Nettunese to the core. At the same time he was also learning about his own heritage, having spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness. The result of his summer in Italy is vintage Bidini: a funny, perceptive, and engrossing book that takes readers far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play.
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Wow, that's sounds intresting.
yeah it is, I love baseball books
Dave Bidini was the lead singer for a Canadian rock band the Rheostatics and has written a couple of books, he's a great writer
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Agreed. I can count myself among those who were mistaken on a lot of things, especially motive.
I did not find the accounts of the attack to be overly gruesome in any way, but the scope of the assault and the length of the planning are both chilling.
If it was you, thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how long it will take me to shake the feeling the book has left me with, but I'm glad I read it.
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VIC 07
EV LA1 08
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Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
The book bothered me for a long time.
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
I'm hoping to finish this by Wednesday as I leave for vacation Thursday and I want to start a fresh book or two while I enjoy some time off. I'm thinking of taking either some Noir classics like Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Dashell Hammett's Red Harvest, or Ed McBain's Cop Hater. I also have Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses and Colin Bateman's Divorcing Jack... or I could just go with my usual quick reads with Michael Connelly and Lee Child... I got a stack and a half of books to chose from... I'm pretty sure this will be a harder decision than what clothes to pack!
It may have been me who mentioned the Columbine book a couple months ago.
I'm right there with you with having been mistaken on so many things about that tragedy. As I was reading the descriptions of the actual attack, I was on the edge of my seat like it was fiction. Pretty sad that that actually happened. But overall, great book and very eye-opening.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Hilarious and cute at the same time.
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
why would you start a memoir if you dont like reading memoirs??? i get its pete townsend but why think itll be any different than reading any other memoir. i have read a bio on pete townsend and im not even a fan of the who(please be kind to me
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Many memoirs are badly written, so even if the person has had an unusual or eventful life, I can't get past the writing. While that isn't the case with this one, it still follows the humdrum format of "I did this, and then I did this, and then I went there, and then I did that." I tend to think most memoirs are self-serving. There's some of that in Pete's but he is also a pretty harsh critic of himself, with plenty of detail about his failings and the people he's wronged.
But listening to him read the book is very entertaining. He's a good storyteller. Listening to it seems to make it a very different book.
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
"Let's check Idaho."
This is the second one? Oh man, these two Elvis books are THE best. If you haven't read them, get them. I wasn't ever a big Elvis fan and then I read these books and understood why he's - duh - the King.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo