My, oh my! The weather is definitely spring like and that means the thoughts wander to baseball, fishing, docks on the lake and riding motorcycles in the wind.
Here are some new books that help those thoughts spring into summer. Perfect Once Removed by Phillip Hoose is a memoir of one magical year. The year Mr. Hoose’s cousin, Don Larsen helped the Yanks win the pennant as a pitcher for the 1956 New York Yankees. A fun read with lots of memorable moments. Fishing is serious business at least as told in Bass Madness: Bigmouths, big money and big dreams at the Bassmaster Classic by Ken Schultz. Mr. Schultz is America’s foremost fishing authority and he takes us behind the scenes of the 2005 an 2006 Citgo Bassmaster Classics. See all the glory, all the hype and all the not so glamorous behind the scenes realities.
If you are getting your bike ready to head out on the open road make sure you know about The Motorcycle Handbook by Kevin Maher and Ben Greisler. This book covers everything you need to select and maintain motorcycles, riding gear and accessories. And don’t forget our travel section to help you select which open roads you are going to ride. For instance take a look at South Dakota’s Black Hills and Badlands by T. D. Griffith and Dustin D. Floyd and put out by Insider Guides.
And now that the lake is officially thawed be sure to take a look at our selection of dock books. A new title is Building and Maintaining Docks by Chris Lamping and covers designing, building, installing and caring for residential docks. Or maybe your thoughts are turning to working outside and preparing for next winter. An interesting new book is The Backyard Lumberjack by Frank Philbrick and Stephen Philbrick. This is the ultimate guide to felling, bucking, splitting and stacking. 160 pages on chopping wood! I never knew there was so much to learn about chopping wood. I will have to give my father a hard time, we were just sent outside and told to chop wood. We were never given a book to read. Oh well, none of us lost any body parts so I guess, he couldn’t have been too wrong. But I am often amazed at the subjects about which someone thinks a book would be useful. Sometimes things I’d never think of writing about.
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