Tuesday, November 15, 2005

The Oprah Book Club List

Which Oprah books have you read? Which ones did you like (or not like)? Do you join me in saying, Thanks be to Oprah?

Oprah's Book Club list
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
  • The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby *
  • Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
  • * The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • * The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  • * Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  • Cane River by Lalita Tademy
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • * Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  • Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  • * The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • * Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • * Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  • Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  • * The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • * The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
  • * Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
  • House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  • I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
  • Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  • * Jewel by Bret Lott
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  • * A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
  • The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
  • * Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
  • Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garc?MᲱuez
  • * Open House by Elizabeth Berg
  • * Paradise by Toni Morrison
  • * The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
  • * The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  • * River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  • She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
  • Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
  • Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
  • Sula by Toni Morrison
  • Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
  • The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
  • Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
  • A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  • We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
  • What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
  • * Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
  • * While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
  • White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Spirit of the Game


As the new season begins and superstars are more interested in fattening their deep pockets rather than improve the game it's disheartning for fans like us to see a game that has seen some of the greatest feats ever accomplished in sports.
What happened to the old glory days when players were not just brand names but legends who inspired awe among those who played with them and those who came to watch them? Where are the George Mikan's,the Bill Cousy's,the Wilt Chamberlain's, the Elgin Baylor's,the Abdul-Jabbar's,the Julius Erving's,the JamesWorthy's? But all was not lost the NBA at the start of the 90's season saw the influx of some of the greatest players to play the game?
Who would not like to see a lanky kid called Jordan come up the floor and display feats that would be described as magical and moving? Basketball is not about just games and promotions it's more than that. It's about beating the odds, rising to the occasion and reaching higher than possible.
I say bring back the glory days when players were not just players but gods.
P.S. I love this Game!