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Post by Nick on Apr 20, 2019 16:07:13 GMT
I've just spent a week in Tenerife with the family, where I vowed I would start reading more. I kicked off this new-look me by reading ' The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz', which is a true story about a father and son who stuck together, and survived, the Holocaust, but lost nearly everyone else around them. It's heart-breakingly stunning and I'd advise everyone to read it. It's a bit heavy, as you'd expect, but also full of courage and tells a story of how a bond like that can get you through anything.
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Post by chaodck on Jul 6, 2019 1:52:39 GMT
Wow! Great recommendation Nick, I'll add it to my queue. I'm currently reading "A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance With Dragons" simultaneously as the books were supposedly written as one and divided geographically instead of chronologically. I've got a handy guide telling me which chapter of which book to read and as I'm reading on my Kindle it's pretty easy and without need of post-its.
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Post by Robson on Jul 6, 2019 22:15:50 GMT
Just completed 'Zonal Marking' by Michael Cox from zonal marking site and author of 'The Mixer'. Both good reads. ZM book goes a little heavy on matches /tournaments but nonetheless a great football book!
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Post by chaodck on Jul 15, 2019 18:02:39 GMT
I've followed Zonal Marking's website for a long long time and I find Cox great at explaining things tactically. He even inspired me to try my hand at blogging on tactical approaches here in South America, unfortuately it wasn't really my thing as I'm not constant enough to keep something like that going.
Also, regarding reading, I just subscribed to Marvel's "Marvel Unlimited" service, which offers over 25k comics issues with pre-made collections and the possibility of setting up your own library. You can access it on your computer and phone, with panel reading but the best way to read them is on a 10" tablet, where I really don't find difference with reading a physical comic. It costs $9.99 if you do month-by-month and around $6.25 per month if you do a yearly subscription.
Besides the A Song of Ice and Fire books I'm reading, I'm also reading the complete "Civil War (2006)" Marvel Event, with all the tie-ins and side stories, it's over 100 issues.
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Post by 80slovechild on Apr 26, 2022 6:07:55 GMT
I'm a massive book nerd, I read every morning and through the day when I can. My most recent football related book was The Feet of the Chameleon, which is a book about football in Africa. It's really good. Currently reading a wrestling (I'm also a huge wrestling mark!) related book.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 26, 2022 11:25:30 GMT
I'm a massive book nerd, I read every morning and through the day when I can. My most recent football related book was The Feet of the Chameleon, which is a book about football in Africa. It's really good. Currently reading a wrestling (I'm also a huge wrestling mark!) related book. Feet of the Chameleon is a great book, I remember reading that and When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone one week when I was off work. I made a vow to read more this year, and have read 9 books according to my goodreads list (although I think I'm missing one or two) but my recent switch back to working 3pm-midnight alongside a sciatica flareup has really curtailed my reading time in recent weeks. The last football book I read was "From partition to solidarity: 100 years of Polish football" as I've also liked Polish football and I'm trying to learn a bit of the language this year before hopefully visiting too. What wrestling book are you reading? I listened to JR's audiobook "slobberknocker: My life in Wrestling" a few years back, but haven't got around to his most recent one and I'm a bit of a lapsed wrestling fan at the moment.
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Post by 80slovechild on Apr 26, 2022 13:44:07 GMT
When Friday comes is on my Goodreads list so I will grab it eventually. I'm on 19 books this year so Goodreads also tells me. Book I'm reading is Titan Screwed, its' the third in a trilogy about the WWF from 1995 - 1997. I'm nearly done with it though.
I've got Jim Ross Slobberknocker book so I might read that next.
I've never had a period where I've not watched wrestling, it's like the only constant I've had. I fell out with football over the last few years, never stopped playing FM though.
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 27, 2022 2:20:33 GMT
When Friday comes is on my Goodreads list so I will grab it eventually. I'm on 19 books this year so Goodreads also tells me. Book I'm reading is Titan Screwed, its' the third in a trilogy about the WWF from 1995 - 1997. I'm nearly done with it though. I've got Jim Ross Slobberknocker book so I might read that next. I've never had a period where I've not watched wrestling, it's like the only constant I've had. I fell out with football over the last few years, never stopped playing FM though. I really enjoyed When Friday... but I read it at a time when I was more heavily interested in world football, and was quite into african and asian football. Currently, I don't go out of my way to watch any football unless it's Rangers. Now that I don't work weekends, I'll catch the odd game here and there but don't specifically sit and watch any by plan. I had a brief spell maybe just after secondary school, so around 07-09 where I didn't watch wrestling at all, then got back into it in a big way, got really into my indie wrestling, particularly DG:USA, but for the last year or two have been much less invested. I still follow the socials and a lot of wrestling accounts, I still know what's going on etc but don't go out of my way to watch anything but the big WWE PPV's. AEW never really caught my attention and that ship has probably sailed for me, and with DG:USA defunct and there not really being a similar alternative, I don't know when I'll be back properly. Lovely seeing my boy Shingo Takagi doing well though!
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Post by dalenichol on Apr 27, 2022 2:32:14 GMT
God dammit, now I'm downloading a 40gb collection of DG:USA shows. Cheers :/
EDIT: Okay, now it's 100+GB
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Post by 80slovechild on Apr 27, 2022 5:54:39 GMT
When Friday comes is on my Goodreads list so I will grab it eventually. I'm on 19 books this year so Goodreads also tells me. Book I'm reading is Titan Screwed, its' the third in a trilogy about the WWF from 1995 - 1997. I'm nearly done with it though. I've got Jim Ross Slobberknocker book so I might read that next. I've never had a period where I've not watched wrestling, it's like the only constant I've had. I fell out with football over the last few years, never stopped playing FM though. I really enjoyed When Friday... but I read it at a time when I was more heavily interested in world football, and was quite into african and asian football. Currently, I don't go out of my way to watch any football unless it's Rangers. Now that I don't work weekends, I'll catch the odd game here and there but don't specifically sit and watch any by plan. I had a brief spell maybe just after secondary school, so around 07-09 where I didn't watch wrestling at all, then got back into it in a big way, got really into my indie wrestling, particularly DG:USA, but for the last year or two have been much less invested. I still follow the socials and a lot of wrestling accounts, I still know what's going on etc but don't go out of my way to watch anything but the big WWE PPV's. AEW never really caught my attention and that ship has probably sailed for me, and with DG:USA defunct and there not really being a similar alternative, I don't know when I'll be back properly. Lovely seeing my boy Shingo Takagi doing well though! I'm similar I was really into football for the longest time but gradually got less interested in it. I'll watch Newcastle always again now but I used to watch every game possible and check scores, form the table and so on. Now I just watch Newcastle and that's it. Wrestling though, I watch as much as I can, I'll watch it all. Love New Japan, Takagi is doing a good job. AEW is great reminds me of the old days when I was a teen in the 90's. WWE is quite watered down but does have its moments every now and then.
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Post by 80slovechild on Apr 27, 2022 5:55:09 GMT
God dammit, now I'm downloading a 40gb collection of DG:USA shows. Cheers :/ EDIT: Okay, now it's 100+GB Hahahah good man. I've got a few Dragon gate shows on my laptop.
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