World Wrestling Insanity, Shoot First Ask Questions Later by James Guttman; 2008; 202 pages; ECW Press, Toronto, ON, Canada; 978-1-55022-836-6; 4/30/09-5/1/09 I thought this was going to be transcriptions or abridgements of Guttmans’ shoot interviews with wrestlers from his website. What it turned out to be is a tease to get you to listen to [...]
Rain Check, Baseball in the Pacific Northwest, Edited by Mark Armour, Photos from the David Eskenazi Collection; 2006; 128 pages; The Society for American Baseball Research, Inc, Cleveland, OH; 1-933599-02-2; 4/27/09-4/30/09 My good friend Cammie Garcia gave me a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas and I chose this book. It is a series [...]
The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, Titanic’s Last Secret by Brad Matsen; 2008;325 pages; Twelve, New York, NY; 978-0-446-58205-6; 4/24/09-4/27/09 John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, who had discovered a German U-boat off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, were contacted by a Titanaic who had dove around Titanic before. [...]
Looking for God, an unexpected journey through tattoos, tofu and pronouns by Nancy Ortberg; 2008; 185 pages; Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, IL; 978-1-4143-1332-0; 4/23/9-4/24/09 I had nothing else to read so I picked up this slim volume that my parents had given us in February. As I read it I thought often of the [...]
