This is the Jackie Robinson book by Northwestern graduate Jonathan Eig. Interesting guy, by the way. I saw 42 last year and bought this book shortly thereafter but waited about a year to read it. It’s not affiliated with the movie, that I know of, but it covers roughly the same topic. I loved it.
This side trip to Greenbush Brewing in Sawyer, MI, after some hiking at Warren Dunes, was a food experience I want to repeat. I had the Starchicken Shotgun, Anger, and Sunspot. For food we had the pastrami and the brisket sandwiches. Everything we put in our mouths was great. This is a destination for sure.
This is a very catchy little bit of serialized TV. Gail and I liked season one enough to record season two on PBS recently. It picks up a few years after season one it seems and starts out with the same characters. After the second episode the main character leaves, but it clips on with the new person just fine.
We chose early May for our annual golf trip to Bonita Springs, Florida. The weather was perfect and off-season rates started May 1, making for some of the highest value golf I’ve ever played. I struck the ball amazingly well all weekend.
Sue Grafton is one my favorite writers. I also like the occasional book about books, which led to Kinsey and Me. This is Sue Grafton’s discussion of her main character, Kinsey Milhone, combined with a bunch of short stories. Since I’m not a lover of the short story, the highlights of this book for me centered around Grafton talking about her relationship with her main character.
I was there for Notre Dame football’s national championship in 1988. I was my senior year though, so I had bigger fish to fry. After reading this book, I realized that I didn’t really appreciate it as much as I could have. At times, this book made me feel almost like an outsider; I didn’t know half of what went on.
We watched the Jobs biopic the other night. Gail’s mom was in town and had read the book, I was mildly interested, so what the heck. It follows Jobs’ life from his college years through his return to Apple after they bought Next Computer company (say 1997 maybe). Ashton Kutcher plays Jobs. It was okay.
I was looking for something to transport me to another world. I usually get his urge after reading a string of crime and spy novels, which I’ve done lately. I went in to this book wanting a Game of Thrones or Millennium Trilogy type of original escape, but I didn’t get it. It was close, but there were hurdles.
We took the Metro into D.C. and got a six pack of macarons from Olivia (with some Intelligentsia Coffee) during a walk through the Georgetown neighborhood. The macarons kicked butt and eliminated any thought of waiting in line for Georgetown Cupcake (seriously, the line was over a block long). Then we walked a few miles to Churchkey for some craft brews and great food in a cool neighborhood setting. That’s a fig, prosciutto, and gorgonzola pizza and some chickpea fritters, if you need to know.
This was a sweet movie, but not the overly done kind of sweet that leaves a sticky film in your mouth that you want to cleanse with beer or coffee. It was a good sweet. It was also pretty hilarious. It’s about a Seattle writer for an indie magazine who piles into his Escalade with two interns for a trip to a resort town where he’s charged with seeing if there’s an angle to a classified advertisement recruiting for someone to participate in time travel.