It's been awhile since I've posted, so here's what I've been reading in the last month or so:
Big Book of Basketball; Bill Simmons. The Sports Guy's reconstruction of the basketball Hall of Fame as well as 700 pages of other thoughts on the topic he writes best about. A great read for NBA fans, Simmons' fans, or anybody interested in hoops and pop culture.
The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Man's Tour of the NBA; Chris Ballard. Ballard, a Sports Illustrated writer, breaks down the ballet of the NBA through detailed looks at commonplace plays. My second favorite basketball book of the past month, or last decade (Behind Simmons book and Halberstam's two NBA books)
Whiteout: Lost in Aspen; Ted Conover: A look at Aspen in the 1980s. Many similarities to living in Durango.
The Hayden Survey of Mesa Verde and the Four Corners: 1874 - 1876. Chronicle of the first "professional" to explore and chronicle this area. Good hints for future visits, but mostly I just wish the Mud Springs ruin wasn't completely obliterated and looked as it did in 1876.
Eating the Dinosaur: Chuck Klosterman. My favorite Klosterman book yet. I'm still figuring out exactly what it is about.
The Machine: Joe Posnanski. The country's best sportswriter delivers a great book about the 1975 season of the Big Red Machine. I read so much free Posnanski content (si.com, joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/) that I felt obligated to buy the book.
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