Books Read In 2011-2012
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I attended a lecture last week by Joe Drape, NY Times reporter and author of "Our Boys - A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen." "Our Boys" is on the mandatory reading list for the Washburn University freshman class.
Drape buzzed into Smith Center, KS several years ago and did a NYT piece on the high school football team's four year winning streak. On the way back home he decided there was a book in the story and, several months later, relocated his family to Smith Center for a year doing research on what became "Our Boys." (A number of his Smith Center friends made the four hour drive to Topeka to hear him and, small wonder, he's a gifted story teller.)
Drape's latest book is "Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football, at West Point" and it's next on my reading list.
Drape buzzed into Smith Center, KS several years ago and did a NYT piece on the high school football team's four year winning streak. On the way back home he decided there was a book in the story and, several months later, relocated his family to Smith Center for a year doing research on what became "Our Boys." (A number of his Smith Center friends made the four hour drive to Topeka to hear him and, small wonder, he's a gifted story teller.)
Drape's latest book is "Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football, at West Point" and it's next on my reading list.
Ok, I'm getting my books read mixed up! I have not yet read "The Passage".
The sci-fi/adventure book I was referring to was "The Long Earth" by Terry Pratchett.
Jeffrey Archer is the author of the historical novels, set from 1930 to the present: Only Time Will Tell, Sins of the Father & A Prisoner of Birth.
I also recommend Albert Brooks "2030, The Real Story of What Happens to America". An interesting peak into the future, very convincing and a great read.
The sci-fi/adventure book I was referring to was "The Long Earth" by Terry Pratchett.
Jeffrey Archer is the author of the historical novels, set from 1930 to the present: Only Time Will Tell, Sins of the Father & A Prisoner of Birth.
I also recommend Albert Brooks "2030, The Real Story of What Happens to America". An interesting peak into the future, very convincing and a great read.
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