Dead Arm

It's been quite a while since I finished a book.  My pesky day job and some other things have gotten in the way.  I'm still reading (and enjoying) our Daniel Suarez Virtual Book Club selection, Freedom by Daniel Suarez.  It's not slow reading.  It's not boring.  The problem is with me.  (It's not you.  It's me.)

I keep analogizing my reading slow down to "dead arm."  For those of you non-baseball fans out there, pitchers often experience a "dead arm" period during spring training.  Their arm just isn't as lively as it was earlier, and they have to work through it and again find their groove.  That's where I think I am on reading.  I just have a bit of a "dead brain" that I need to work through.  Then, I'll pick up the pace.

Speaking of baseball, it's almost baseball book season once again.  Every year, from about March to May, I read a bunch of newly released books on baseball.  And I usually pick up a golden oldie, too.

This year, for some reason, there's a run on biographies of home run hitters--Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Roger Maris, Al Kaline and Mike Schmidt.  There's also a Stan Musial biography.

I always research the authors to see if these are "good" biographies or "crappy" biographies.  The author of the Stan Musial biography has written one on ARod (please) and Babe Ruth (Robert Creamer wrote the definitive Babe Ruth biography and I'm leery of anyone who thinks he can top that).

Live long, read and prosper.  We'll leave the light on for you.