Admittedly there has been a fair amount of down time while in Henley and since we've been here since June 14th I've been able to get a fair amount of reading done (none that I would consider particularly earthshaking). Death at the Priory was a fairly disturbing historical account of a sordid poisoning and affair in Victorian England, a Jack Higgins' novel A Fine Night for Dying about super-spy Paul Chavasse, the Geno Auriemma autobiography (kind of neat because so many of the players are well-known), Tom Clancy's Net Force (a futuristic story about the far off year of 2010), and The Few and the Proud (an account of Marine Corps drill instructors). Now I'm trying to finish John Grisham's The Testament. I can't say that any of these books are educational or particularly cultural apart from Death at the Priory but at least they're entertaining. Tomorrow we'll walk the course at 10:30 AM and prepare to qualify later on in the afternoon. A good night to all!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Henley Reading List
Admittedly there has been a fair amount of down time while in Henley and since we've been here since June 14th I've been able to get a fair amount of reading done (none that I would consider particularly earthshaking). Death at the Priory was a fairly disturbing historical account of a sordid poisoning and affair in Victorian England, a Jack Higgins' novel A Fine Night for Dying about super-spy Paul Chavasse, the Geno Auriemma autobiography (kind of neat because so many of the players are well-known), Tom Clancy's Net Force (a futuristic story about the far off year of 2010), and The Few and the Proud (an account of Marine Corps drill instructors). Now I'm trying to finish John Grisham's The Testament. I can't say that any of these books are educational or particularly cultural apart from Death at the Priory but at least they're entertaining. Tomorrow we'll walk the course at 10:30 AM and prepare to qualify later on in the afternoon. A good night to all!
