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
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team's move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren't dead--not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal--as North America's largest market without a baseball team--could host Major League Baseball again. There has never been a major English-language book on the entire franchise history. There also hasn't been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and routinely makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The author of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book (EVERYONE: including the ownership that allowed the team to be moved), and fans can expect to hear from just about every player and personality from the Expos' unforgettable 35 years in baseball.
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
She's so sad and angry and brokenhearted. The book reads like a long therapy session, complete with psychological connections similar to those generally arrived at during analysis. For example, during one particularly devastating passage, she draws the line that connects the dots between her cold and removed stage persona and the fact that when she was a child, her brother tormented her for showing any emotions at all.
I SAW PEARL JAM
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Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
doesn't look like Smarchee goes in for a lot of "lite" reading
did you ever read Tweak? ohmygoddepressing.
If I had known then what I know now...
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VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Going to go pick up the book TBU recommended to me ,right now. I look forward to some interesting reading, and follow up research. I'll let ya'll know how The Tiger reads.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I've thought about reading Chast's book. I'll have to read your post about it. During the past year, dealing with my aging mother has become much more stressful.
I'm not sure I could read a book about Katrina. Several years ago I was a caseworker for people who had relocated to my area because of Katrina. Some of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard.
I've thought about reading Chast's book. I'll have to read your post about it. During the past year, dealing with my aging mother has become much more stressful.
I'm not sure I could read a book about Katrina. Several years ago I was a caseworker for people who had relocated to my area because of Katrina. Some of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard.
The Chast book is dark. And I cried. But it's really funny too. This Katrina book is mostly about the politics of what happens afterwards - it's such a clusterfuck and so frustrating. But very very interesting. Makes you hate politics (even more).
Just read A Painted House by John Grisham. I somehow made it this far in life as an avid reader and former manager of three bookstores without ever having read Grisham. Now I know that I was onto something.
Actually, the story was great -- and I imagine his other stories are great as well -- but he just has no style (at least not in this book). Content is only half the makings of a good book to me; the rest is style.
Not a book, per se, but last week I went to Worldcon for the first time and had a blast!
For those who don't know, Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention, is held yearly and moves around the world. Last year it was in London, this year it was in Spokane (lucky me). Went to a lot of readings and usually heard excerpts from things as yet unpublished. Met a lot of authors, some of them my favourites; had a morning stroll with Connie Willis and briefer chats with Robert Sawyer, Brandon Sanderson, Jo Walton, and Scott Lynch, and a quick hello with a very grumpy Robert Silverberg who apparently doesn't like e-books. I also attended a ton of interesting panel discussions and a plenary talk by the Vatican's chief astronomer (yes, they have an astronomer and he is an actual PhD). And finally, saw an absolute wack of costumes, some fun and some just weird.
If anyone else is thinking of attending a future Worldcon, I'd highly recommend it.
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Not a book, per se, but last week I went to Worldcon for the first time and had a blast!
For those who don't know, Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention, is held yearly and moves around the world. Last year it was in London, this year it was in Spokane (lucky me). Went to a lot of readings and usually heard excerpts from things as yet unpublished. Met a lot of authors, some of them my favourites; had a morning stroll with Connie Willis and briefer chats with Robert Sawyer, Brandon Sanderson, Jo Walton, and Scott Lynch, and a quick hello with a very grumpy Robert Silverberg who apparently doesn't like e-books. I also attended a ton of interesting panel discussions and a plenary talk by the Vatican's chief astronomer (yes, they have an astronomer and he is an actual PhD). And finally, saw an absolute wack of costumes, some fun and some just weird.
If anyone else is thinking of attending a future Worldcon, I'd highly recommend it.
This is awesome. I was reading about it and the battles regarding the Hugos on GRRM's website leading up to Worldcon. Love Dooms Day Book & Connie Willis....Brandon Sanderson is great...and Scott Lynch is also one of my favorites. Neat that you got to meat them all. Have never read the others you met but glad you had fun!
Stalled in reading right now. Working very long hours and playing long hours, no time made! Need to change that
Not a book, per se, but last week I went to Worldcon for the first time and had a blast!
For those who don't know, Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention, is held yearly and moves around the world. Last year it was in London, this year it was in Spokane (lucky me). Went to a lot of readings and usually heard excerpts from things as yet unpublished. Met a lot of authors, some of them my favourites; had a morning stroll with Connie Willis and briefer chats with Robert Sawyer, Brandon Sanderson, Jo Walton, and Scott Lynch, and a quick hello with a very grumpy Robert Silverberg who apparently doesn't like e-books. I also attended a ton of interesting panel discussions and a plenary talk by the Vatican's chief astronomer (yes, they have an astronomer and he is an actual PhD). And finally, saw an absolute wack of costumes, some fun and some just weird.
If anyone else is thinking of attending a future Worldcon, I'd highly recommend it.
This is awesome. I was reading about it and the battles regarding the Hugos on GRRM's website leading up to Worldcon. Love Dooms Day Book & Connie Willis....Brandon Sanderson is great...and Scott Lynch is also one of my favorites. Neat that you got to meat them all. Have never read the others you met but glad you had fun!
Stalled in reading right now. Working very long hours and playing long hours, no time made! Need to change that
Ah yes, the Hugo controversies. The sad puppies/rabid puppies caused lots of commotion ahead of time but virtually none at Worldcon itself. They spun the "no award" thing as a win but I see it as a resounding rejection of their platform (if you can call it that). I haven't read the novel winner Three Body Problem, but I intend to soon.
F Me, if you like the others I mentioned then look up Robert J. Sawyer as I think you'd like him. The Wake, Watch and Wonder series (that's three different books) is great. He's got a bunch of other good ones but that would be a good intro to his work. Silverberg is one of the grand daddies of SciFi; he's been writing since the '50s. Jo Walton kind of burst onto the scene with her book Among Others a few years back, although she'd been writing and publishing a long time before that. In my opinion, it's her best novel.
Lynch has another Gentleman Bastards book in development that he read from and it's sounding good. Sanderson is, of course, always publishing; he's juggling several on the go.
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^^ Thanks@ Will add Sawyer to the list and love to hear that Locke will be back again, love the Bastards. Glad to hear the puppies should go away now. Poor GRRM was so consumed by it the sob probably lost a month on his latest book.
just got done with this. about much more than football.
now, I'm reading this:
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
just got done with this. about much more than football.
now, I'm reading this:
Did you really just read Friday Night Lights for the first time? It's amazing - it was the book I gave to everybody after I read it. Did you see the update on everyone in SI? It's very cool. And sad.
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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
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team's move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren't dead--not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal--as North America's largest market without a baseball team--could host Major League Baseball again.
There has never been a major English-language book on the entire franchise history. There also hasn't been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and routinely makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The author of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book (EVERYONE: including the ownership that allowed the team to be moved), and fans can expect to hear from just about every player and personality from the Expos' unforgettable 35 years in baseball.
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 on to this:
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
did you ever read Tweak? ohmygoddepressing.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Carthage with a barbarian problem.
Never read Madame Bovary but it is now on my list.
Racing through the dark - David Millae
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
a classic of modern literature.
even if I look and act really crazy.
Now I'm reading this and - wow. Amazing.
I'm not sure I could read a book about Katrina. Several years ago I was a caseworker for people who had relocated to my area because of Katrina. Some of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard.
(Did I hear something about a new puppy...)
Actually, the story was great -- and I imagine his other stories are great as well -- but he just has no style (at least not in this book). Content is only half the makings of a good book to me; the rest is style.
Grisham has remedial style.
For those who don't know, Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention, is held yearly and moves around the world. Last year it was in London, this year it was in Spokane (lucky me). Went to a lot of readings and usually heard excerpts from things as yet unpublished. Met a lot of authors, some of them my favourites; had a morning stroll with Connie Willis and briefer chats with Robert Sawyer, Brandon Sanderson, Jo Walton, and Scott Lynch, and a quick hello with a very grumpy Robert Silverberg who apparently doesn't like e-books. I also attended a ton of interesting panel discussions and a plenary talk by the Vatican's chief astronomer (yes, they have an astronomer and he is an actual PhD). And finally, saw an absolute wack of costumes, some fun and some just weird.
If anyone else is thinking of attending a future Worldcon, I'd highly recommend it.
Love Dooms Day Book & Connie Willis....Brandon Sanderson is great...and Scott Lynch is also one of my favorites. Neat that you got to meat them all.
Have never read the others you met but glad you had fun!
Stalled in reading right now. Working very long hours and playing long hours, no time made! Need to change that
F Me, if you like the others I mentioned then look up Robert J. Sawyer as I think you'd like him. The Wake, Watch and Wonder series (that's three different books) is great. He's got a bunch of other good ones but that would be a good intro to his work. Silverberg is one of the grand daddies of SciFi; he's been writing since the '50s. Jo Walton kind of burst onto the scene with her book Among Others a few years back, although she'd been writing and publishing a long time before that. In my opinion, it's her best novel.
Lynch has another Gentleman Bastards book in development that he read from and it's sounding good. Sanderson is, of course, always publishing; he's juggling several on the go.
Thanks@ Will add Sawyer to the list and love to hear that Locke will be back again, love the Bastards.
Glad to hear the puppies should go away now. Poor GRRM was so consumed by it the sob probably lost a month on his latest book.
now, I'm reading this:
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..