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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
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    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    dankind said:

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    Heartbreaking (so far).

    how so?
    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 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    great read

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    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
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    smarchee said:

    dankind said:

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    Heartbreaking (so far).

    how so?
    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
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    edited August 2015
    Read this:
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    Now on to this:
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    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    can you read well...
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
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    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,246
    Friday Night Lights
    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
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,246
    doesn't look like Smarchee goes in for a lot of "lite" reading :wink:

    did you ever read Tweak? ohmygoddepressing.
    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
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    About to read Russel Brand's Revolution
    Kool Kat Club 1992, Moderna museet 1992, Globen 2012, Friends arena 2014
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    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.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    edited August 2015
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    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
  • Gustave Flaubert Salammbô. Outstanding!
    Carthage with a barbarian problem.
    Never read Madame Bovary but it is now on my list.
    Hold On
  • cydonia
    cydonia Denbighshire, North Wales , UK Posts: 456
    Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce - Kent Nerburn
    Racing through the dark - David Millae
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,945
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    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,556
    the orphan master's son (for the second time)
    a classic of modern literature.
    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I just finished reading Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, the cartoonist/artist and it's wonderful. I did a blog post about it. http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2015/08/read-me-now.html

    Now I'm reading this and - wow. Amazing.

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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,909
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    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Enkidu said:

    I just finished reading Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, the cartoonist/artist and it's wonderful. I did a blog post about it. http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2015/08/read-me-now.html

    Now I'm reading this and - wow. Amazing.

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    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 stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,909
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    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025