My wife likes to read ... a lot. She's got some sort of premium library card that allows her to check out 60 (I think) books at a time. One of my daughters has the reading bug, too. That is so cool -- knowing that the world is opening up to her and she'll be able to learn so much from reading. Sometimes my wife checks books out for me that I'd like. Recently she brought home Landry's Boys, which is a biography about the legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys -- Tom Landry. It's cool to read up on how he perceived playing football. He had the concept that: if you could anticipate what the opposing player/team was going to do, you could defense against it. What's so cool is that he developed this as a true-to-life player/coach.
The other book my wife surprised me with was Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide To Emo Culture. Nice, huh? It's a laugh-inducer with illustrations (by Rob Dobi) and humorous anecdotes galore. I'm going to have fun reading this one cover-to-cover.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at October 4, 2007 09:39 AM