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Reading Group Review: Deadline

I just finshed reading "Deadline" by Chris Crutcher today and it chronicles the life of a senior, Ben Wolf who is terminally ill. Yet he decides to keep his illness from others and try to live a 'normal' life but he soon realizes that nothing is normal about his life.

Ben doesn't accept treatment not wanting to become bald and live a briefly extended life. Instead he decides to live his life to the maximum. He decides to become the best 123 pound football player his school has ever had, give his civics teacher a dose of his true knowledge, finally get the girl of his dreams Dallas Suzuki and help a drunk Rudy McCoy, sober up.

The Gashouse Gang

I recently read "The Gashouse Gang" by John Heidenry.This book chronicles the 1934 St Louis Cardinals,one of the most colorful in sports history.With the likes of "Dizzy" Dean,his brother Paul,Leo Durocher,Pepper Martin,Joe Medwick,and Branch Rickey running the show at GM,the Cardinals put on quite an improbable season,on their way to a World Series championship.

This book tells of how The Great Deppresion crippled the nation as well as baseball in that dark time.It also tells of how the players came to the Cardinals through Branch Rickey.Many stange things occured in order for the redbirds to take home the Pennant as well as the series.

Bag of Bones

I am reading a book called Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I am not finished with it, but it his an excellent book.

It is about a writer whos wife dies. It tells what happens to him and what he experiences at his lake house.

He can even adventure to the Twilight Zone.... LOL