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James Best
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Right now, I'm reading:
LOOSE BALLS by Terry Pluto. History of the American Basketball Association.
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Mike:
That is a great book and one of the best ever written about professional basketball. If you like it look for Pluto's other book called TALL TALES: The Glory Years of the NBA. It is written in the same format with former players, coaches, etc. talking about the sport before it became a financial juggernaut in the early 80s.
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James Best
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Now starting HANG ON ST. CHRISTOPHER by Adrian McKinty, the eighth and newest hardcover release in his ongoing mystery series featuring detective inspector Sean Duffy and set in Ireland during The Troubles.
I have to admit that reading this series has shown me just how clueless I was about the conflict in Northern Ireland during my youth.
Edited by James Best on 22 March 2025 at 11:46pm
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Already 1/3 on the way in the third book in the series of “A Follet valley
mystery” by Ian Moore: “Death at the Chateau”.
There is a story arc for the main characters through the 3 books, like
subplots. And the author still manages to make something delightful and
fresh with all the routines ( and murders ) of that small wold.
I am enjoying it a lot.
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Michael Arndt
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James,
Appreciate the recommendation.
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Jean Voulis
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I bought some classic Robert E Howard collections - Kull and Bran Mac Morn (with some gorgeous Gary Gianni illustrations and end notes) that I will devour this summer!
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Brian Acuff
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I'm reading the Elric series since the last time was about 15 years ago. The twist is I'm reading it to my wife, for some reason she likes my voice even when I screw up the words but it does give me a chance to read aloud and use my voice because I feel like I'm getting weaker in that department as I'm getting older...
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James Best
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Now starting SECOND VIOLIN by John Lawton, the sixth book in his historical mystery/thriller series featuring Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard.
The series is set before, during, and after WWII, with the novels covering events across various points in the timeline. This particular novel is set before the start of WWII after the Nazis have annexed both Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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A couple chapters into THE DAY of BATTLE by Atkinson.
The second book of his "Liberation Trilogy". Continuing the Allied advance leaving North Africa and entering Sicily/Italy.
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MAVERICKS by Jenny DraperAn extension of her YouTube videos, where she occasionally touches upon unusual folk that history has largely forgotten. IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS by Michael Taylor A deep dive into the battles between science and religion spawned by the first serious investigation of dinosaurs. Coincidentally, two of the people who feature prominently here also appear in Ms Draper’s book.
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We just finished reading "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen with my ten-year-old son. I was around his age when I first read the book as well. It's a great, realistic story about a teenager's unlikely survival in the Canadian wilderness after having been stranded there following a plane crash.
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Now starting THE RISE AND REIGN OF THE MAMMALS: A New History From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte.
This is the sequel to his 2018 book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, which I read and enjoyed several years ago.
The author is an American paleontologist who teaches at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has named over a dozen new dinosaur and mammal species and served as a technical advisor for the Jurassic World movie franchise.
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Right now, I'm reading:
LOOSE BALLS by Terry Pluto. History of the American Basketball Association.
***************************************************
Mike:
That is a great book and one of the best ever written about professional basketball. If you like it look for Pluto's other book called TALL TALES: The Glory Years of the NBA. It is written in the same format with former players, coaches, etc. talking about the sport before it became a financial juggernaut in the early 80s.
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Mike - I'm going to agree with James, TALL TALES is good follow up to LOOSE BALLS. Probably not as fresh because the players and their stories are much more familiar to us than the ABA stories, but a good read.
I wish Pluto had done an NBL book, but that ship has sailed because all of the NBL players are gone now, an NBL oral history would have had to have been done twenty years ago, if not more.
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